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Economics of Criminal Justice

A meeting of the Louisiana Crime Victims Reparations Board in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in May.
Investigate Your State September 13, 2018
How to Investigate Victim Compensation in Your State
A guide for stealing our work.
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Securus Technologies provides phone services to more than 2,200 correctional facilities, including the York Community Reintegration Center in Niantic, Conn.
Commentary July 11, 2018
This Call May be Monopolized and Recorded
Advocates say prison phone companies’ merger diminishes competition
By Bianca Tylek and Connor Mccleskey
Photographs and letters shared between Kimberly Heraldez and her father, Kevin Zeich, while he was in prison.
Feature March 7, 2018
Old, Sick and Dying in Shackles
“Compassionate release” has bipartisan support as a way to reduce the federal prison population and save taxpayer money. New data shows that it’s rarely used.
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The Caddo Parish Courthouse in Shreveport, La.
News November 28, 2017
Where the Poor Face the Death Penalty Without a Lawyer
A budget crunch in Louisiana leads to an unusual wait list.
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The site in Letcher County, Ky., intended for a new maximum security federal prison was flattened by surface mining.
News November 7, 2017
A Timely Prison Project? Or a G.O.P. Congressman’s Boondoggle?
Even the Trump administration casts doubt on the $444-million plan.
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The Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton, Minn., opened in 1992.
Commentary November 6, 2017
When A Small Town’s Private Prison Goes Bust
Contrary to popular belief, private prisons often don’t save the economies of the rural towns that seek them out.
Lauren-Brooke Eisen
Inmates watch television at the Missouri River Correctional Center, a minimum-security facility in Bismarck, N.D., which has based some of its programs on those found in a prison in Norway.
News October 31, 2017
I Did It Norway
Some American prisons are singing a European tune.
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Life Inside September 14, 2017
I Can’t Visit My Sons in Prison Because I Have Unpaid Traffic Tickets
A mother with debts — and cancer — wonders if she’ll ever see her incarcerated children again.
By Joyce Davis, as told to
Michelle Jones, center, works on a housing policy proposal at Indiana Women’s Prison with Andrew Falk, left, a senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute, and Natalie Medley.
Commentary September 14, 2017
The Taxpayers and Michelle Jones
How her prison education saved us a million bucks
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Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a package of bills to overhaul Louisiana’s criminal justice system in June.
Analysis July 19, 2017
Nine Lessons About Criminal Justice Reform
What Washington can learn from the states.
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