
"Faster growth in the nation's Black adult resident population contributed more to its respective imprisonment rate decline than did the White adult resident population growth." "We recommend that the criminal justice system of each state be redesigned and restructured as a single administrative agency.We offer this as a standard for assessment of the present system, a way to highlight dysfunction and suggest much-needed reform."īlack-White National Imprisonment Trends, 2000 to 2020, From a limited review of 31 local jurisdictions with EM programs, fees ranged from less than $1 a day up to $40 per day"įrom Police, Prosecutors, Courts, and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency, "Broad language in state statutes and rules often gives local governments considerable latitude in determining how much to charge. "The Republic's and KJZZ's five-part series reveals the detrimental effects of what happens when a state exploits some of its poorest people for their labor."Ī 50-State Survey of the Costs Assessed to People on E-Supervision, This is approximately a 30-fold increase in heat-attributed deaths when compared with estimates in the US population." "We found that 13% of mortality during warm months may be attributable to extreme heat in prisons without air conditioning in Texas.

"We hope these stories provoke deep thinking about what is going on behind all those fortress walls, to these invisible fellow Americans, and then compel you to demand both accountability for the FBOP and change in how we incarcerate in this country."

More than Our Crimes and Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.
