"It is no exaggeration to say that, without plea bargaining, mass incarceration could not occur," Barkow writes. "The mass numbers of cases require mass processing, and you cannot have that ...

In a pair of rulings Thursday, judges in California and Maryland found the administration acted unlawfully when it directed mass layoffs of an unspecified number of the federal government's ...

The nation faces very alarming rates of mass incarceration and heavy racial disparities. According to the Sentencing Project, two million people are incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails ...

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