A majority of the youngest people killed by police between 2005 and 2012 were Black males, according to statistics reported to the FBI. “Nearly two … [Read more...]

Most firearm deaths are suicides, not homicides, according to the 2015 Annual Review of Public Health. Suicides accounted on average for 60.5 percent … [Read more...]

Thousands of children streaming out of the state foster care system discover they are victims of identity theft, the California Office of Privacy … [Read more...]

The transition from prison to freedom is being eased for hundreds of former inmates given beds in community rehabilitation centers. An estimated 1,000 … [Read more...]

Investigative work done by the research group Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) was recently used by state and private organizations to pressure a county … [Read more...]

Residents in neighborhoods with high incarceration rates are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety, according to a recent article in The … [Read more...]

U.S. criminal justice policies too often respond to people who are “sick, poor, homeless or unable to care for themselves or their families with the … [Read more...]