Beginning in the 1980s, federal budgetary constraints and increasing incarceration rates moved the U.S. government to issue its first contracts with the private prison industry. This action fired off ...
America talks about recidivism as if it were a mystery. It isn’t. It is a predictable outcome of how we run prisons. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has tracked what happens after release for ...
WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — The Trump administration’s latest lawsuit against California involves a new law banning private prisons from operating in the state. Despite the lawsuit, California lawmakers ...
Ruby Welch assists a student at Arkansas Beauty School in Little Rock on Dec. 10, 2025. Welch is one of the many formerly incarcerated Arkansans who stays tied to the criminal justice system after ...