Even though some states say they are tough on crime, they are actually just more oppressive and regressive, with higher crime ...

Oklahoma was one of 12 states to reduce its prison population in 2023, though its incarceration rate remains among the ...

The state has one of the nation's highest incarceration rates, which criminal justice reform advocates often attribute to harsh sentencing laws. Based on 2022 data, Arizona had the country's ...

According to two of the country's leading experts on criminal justice statistics, the growth in state incarceration for non-drug offenses between 1980 and 1996 is attributable entirely to public ...

Avenues for Justice (AFJ), one of the first alternative-to-incarceration for youth in the country, provides youth ... Research shows that higher incarceration rates don’t necessarily lower ...

Despite having some of the nation’s lowest crime rates, Idaho incarcerates more women per capita than any other state. Women ...

As U.S. President Joe Biden warned in his farewell speech that “an oligarchy is taking shape” in the country, officials from Tulsa and beyond gathered to discuss how Oklahoma’s criminal justice system ...