The prison population has been creeping back upward. New laws in some states instituting harsher punishments threaten to further fill prisons, many of which are already understaffed and overcrowded.

These charts show the extent of racial disparities ... Black prisoners are overrepresented in the US prison population compared to their share of the total US population. According to the Bureau ...

For the past few years, America has started to take a closer look at our soaring prison population. Decades of tough-on-crime policies mean we now incarcerate 2.3 million people — the highest rate of ...

Black people make up nearly half of the homeless population, despite making ... "It was an active way of enforcing segregation." 12 charts: These graphs show how racial disparities persist ...