Harsh Sentencing, Overstuffed Prisons—It’s Time for Reform: Nonviolent Offenders Make Up 90% of the Federal Prison Population
Too many people are in prison who should not be there. How many? Most of…
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Why America’s Mass Incarceration Experiment Failed
The provost of Rutgers University-Newark, Todd Clear specializes in the study of criminal justice, and…
Read More »February 2013
Prison and the Poverty Trap
WASHINGTON — Why are so many American families trapped in poverty? Of all the explanations…
Read More »September 2012
New Research Shows High Risk of Eviction for Women in Predominately Black Neighborhoods
For America’s poorest renters — particularly black women — evictions are disturbingly common, trapping them…
Read More »October 2010
Toxic Persons: New Research Shows Precisely How the Prison-to-Poverty Cycle Does Its Damage
Forty years after the United States began its experimentation with mass incarceration policies, the country…
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Crime and Punishment: Some Costs of Inequality
Once upon a time, economists told us that efforts to reduce income inequality would be…
Read More »April 2004
Economic Inequality and the Rise in U.S. Imprisonment
Abstract This paper relates the growth in men’s prison admission rates to increasing economic inequality…
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