It accounts for sentences of more than one year. States with a lower incarceration rate were given a higher ranking. The incarceration rate metric is one of many that factor into the overall Best ...

Rates of incarceration among First Nations adults are disproportionately high and getting worse, as confirmed in the latest update to Closing the Gap targets published on Wednesday. Reoffending ...

A new report released by Texas A&M University details the consequences of extreme heat in Texas prisons, where a lack of air conditioning poses dangerous conditions for those incarcerated.

Mass incarceration was largely enabled by a 1994 federal bill ... “There was a lot of talk about the achievement gap in education,” Baker said. But Baker started to understand that educational ...