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Learn about our key areas of focus to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice.
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Racial Justice

Ending mass incarceration must include combating racial inequality and disparity.

Sentencing Reform

It's time to take a second look at extreme sentences.

Voting Rights

The criminal justice system shouldn't have a say in our democracy.

Youth Justice

We must end youth incarceration and provide all youth with the support they need to thrive.
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Second Look Network

Ending mass incarceration requires taking a second look at extreme sentences. Learn more about our coalition of legal professionals providing direct representation to incarcerated individuals seeking relief from lengthy or unfair sentences.
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The Network serves, connects, and empowers legal advocates across the country to bring people serving excessive and unfair prison sentences home.

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Changing laws and policies to end mass incarceration require a mass movement. Here are ways you can take action.
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50 Years and a Wake Up

America’s 50-year experiment with mass incarceration has been a profound moral and policy failure. Partner with us to end mass incarceration!
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Growth in Mass Incarceration

The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration. Get the facts and statistics on trends in U.S. incarceration.

U.S. Criminal Justice Data

View state-level data to provide a snapshot of key indicators of mass incarceration's impact in the United States

Detailed Data Tool

Compare state-level incarceration data for youth and adults with this expanded data set

Resource Library

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Featured Publication

One in Five

One in five Black men born in 2001 is likely to experience imprisonment within their lifetime. Our four-part “One in Five” series examines racial inequities in America’s criminal legal system, as well as highlights promising reforms.
- Glossary of Criminal Justice Terms

Advocacy Letter

The Sentencing Project Joins 1,000+ Organizations Calling for Immediate Halt in All Funding to ICE and CBP

January 27, 2026

Over 1,000+ organizations joined a demand letter to Congress urging an immediate halting of funds for ICE and Border Patrol

Related to: Federal Advocacy

The Sentencing Project joined 1,000+ organizations demanding Congress immediate halts all funding to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol through the appropriations process and revoke the tens of billions already given to ICE and CBP in last summer’s reconciliation bill.

Read the letter here.

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Newsletter

Virginia Takes Step to End Jim Crow Era Voting Ban

Virginia lawmakers voted to place a measure on the 2026 November ballot to automatically restore voting rights to people released from prison.

By Nicole D. Porter on January 23, 2026

Press Release

Over 15,000 Washingtonians Denied the Right to Vote

New Sentencing Project brief details how felony voting bans disenfranchise thousands

January 21, 2026

Report

State Voting Rights Briefs

In 2024, four million Americans were banned from voting due to a felony conviction. The Sentencing Project is committed to expanding voting rights in every state and works with state partners to provide specific data on state felony disenfranchisement.

January 21, 2026