The challenges of interpreting vaccination data reported by carceral agencies The purpose of collecting vaccine data is twofold: for...

New data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that state prisons are seeing alarming rises in suicide, homicide, and drug and...

America’s prisons, jails and detention centers have been among the nation’s most dangerous places when it comes to infections from the ...

Vera found that the United States spent roughly $33 billion on incarceration in 2000 for roughly the same level of public safety it ...

As the Biden administration begins to implement its criminal justice reform goals, experts say that access to timely and accurate data...

Jail costs rose even as crime and admissions to jail fell. As of the end of 2017: A 20% decrease in crime and a 19% drop in jail...

The Freakout About Giving COVID Vaccines to Prisoners Has Already Begun Toward the end of a press conference on Tuesday afternoon,...

The COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the United States has raged with particular ferocity inside prisons and jails. Such facilities...

States and counties are finding it hard to keep jails and prisons open as the virus ravages both prisoners and staff members. But...

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/04/world/covid-19-coronavirus/virus-cases-in-us-jails-and-prisons-surpass-500000 The number of...

CDC MMWR ---- COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities — United States, February–April 2020 Prompt identification of persons...

From The Lancet: Prisons are "in no way equipped" to deal with COVID-19 "We will probably never know the extent to which coronavirus...

Interim Guidance on Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Correctional and Detention Facilities...

Prisons and jails are confronted with unique challenges as they work to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 for incarcerated people and...

We must integrate our nation’s 5,000 jails, prisons and immigration detention centers with our pandemic response efforts....

African Americans are returned to New York State prisons for “technical violations” of parole at five times the rate of whites, and ...

Handwashing and sanitizers may make people on the outside safer. But in prison it can be impossible to follow public health advice....

A new report by OPEN MINDS, State Policy On Medicaid Benefits For State Prison Inmates: A State-By-State Review, found that 42 states...

The Long Journey to Visit a Family Member in Prison Remote prison towns and strict visitation policies make it hard to stay in touch. The...

Recent studies have found that 2.7 million children in the United States have a parent serving time in prison or jail at any given time,...