This joint shadow report from The Sentencing Project and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination details the impact of racial disparities in criminal sentencing and imprisonment.
The Sentencing Project, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Penal Reform International submitted a request to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) for a thematic hearing on life imprisonment in the Organization of American States (OAS) region.
Twenty-one states partially closed or fully closed at least one correctional facility since 2000, resulting in a trend of prison repurposing in which old prisons are converted for community and commercial use.
