Many Jails Are As Full As They Were Before COVID-19 Pandemic Jail populations dropped in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but have now rebounded in many facilities to levels seen in early 2020 or higher, according to figures from the Jail Data Initiative (JDI).
Jail populations dropped in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic but have now rebounded in many facilities to levels seen in early 2020 or higher, according to figures from the Jail Data Initiative (JDI).
Incarcerated women face challenges in accessing menstrual hygiene productsA new study has shown that among incarcerated women, many have to trade or barter to access menstrual hygiene products. The study, which...
The aging prison population: Causes, costs, and consequences State and federal governments spend increasingly more money on consistently inadequate healthcare for their growing populations of...
Prisons try to adjust as their inmate population grows olderThe number of elderly Americans serving time in prison has skyrocketed in recent decades. In 1991, for example, just 3% of the men and...
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