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

Key Issues

Racial Justice

Ending mass incarceration must include combating racial inequality and disparity.

To achieve racial justice, we must transform the entire criminal legal system to focus on humanity, rehabilitation, prevention and public safety for all – not just a privileged few.

Amy Fettig
Executive Director

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Featured Fact Sheet

Media Guide: 10 Crime Coverage Dos and Don’ts

The Sentencing Project’s new media guide can help media outlets develop coverage that will better inform the public and policymakers on how to pursue the most effective and humane public safety policies.

By Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D. on

Policy Brief

Incarcerated LGBTQ+ Adults and Youth

This brief examines the criminalization and over-incarceration of LGBTQ+ people in the United States, highlighting the drivers of overrepresentation and presenting recommendations for reform.

By Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D. and Emma Stammen on

Fact Sheet

Incarcerated Women and Girls

Research on female incarceration is critical to understanding the full consequences of mass incarceration and to unraveling the policies and practices that lead to their criminalization. The number of incarcerated women was nearly five times higher in 2020 than in 1980.

Report

Private Prisons in the United States

Twenty-six states and the federal government incarcerated 99,754 people in private prisons in 2020, representing 8% of the total state and federal prison population.

By Mackenzie Buday and Ashley Nellis, Ph.D. on

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