Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that ...

After meeting for more than eight hours in Pierre this past week, members of South Dakota’s Project Prison Reset task force ...

suggesting that those serving life without parole make up an increasingly large share of the prison population. Every few years, The Sentencing Project looks at exactly who is serving life without ...

After years of political upheaval, court battles and legislative tugs-of-war, the plan to build a new men’s prison in Lincoln ...

According to The Sentencing Project, 72.1% of federal prisoners are ... prisons than any other “free” nation. According to the Prison Policy Initiative, prisons, jails and other forms of ...

according to an analysis of state prison populations by the Sentencing Project. In 12 states, more than half the prison population is Black, the analysts found. As a result, the survey is not ...

Half of the prison population at the federal level is made up of people incarcerated on a drug conviction. The Sentencing Project says that most of these people are not high-level players in the ...

It was 1979, and America was entering the era of mass incarceration, with tough sentencing laws ballooning the criminal justice system. As California’s prison population surged, so did prison ...

Multiple layers of razor wire surround Marcy Correctional Facility, a state prison in Oneida County ... a campaign advocacy associate at The Sentencing Project, advocating for the very same ...

In the 2025 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly addressed a critical issue plaguing Maryland’s correctional system: the growing population of aging and terminally ill individuals ...

This is a direct result of the excessively harsh “tough-on-crime” policies of the 1990s, leaving Michigan with an aging, costly prison population and a rigid sentencing system that fails to ...