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Gov. Jeff Landry, a White man wearing a blue suit and red tie, speaking at a podium in January 2024.
Closing Argument March 9, 2024
These States Are Once Again Embracing ‘Tough-on-Crime’ Laws
Louisiana is one of several states passing punitive measures in response to public fears.
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Analysis September 27, 2021
There Are Fewer People Behind Bars Now Than 10 Years Ago. Will It Last?
Census data show incarceration rates are down. It may have more to do with the pandemic than broad reforms.
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Prisoners in Angola, Louisiana, where the state prison population has dropped by 5.4 percent.
News May 18, 2018
Maryland Leads as Prison Populations Continue to Decline
Sentencing reforms still curbing mass incarceration, but some eye reversals.
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Women at the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln, Ill., in 2016.
Justice Lab December 15, 2017
A Mass Incarceration Mystery
Why are black imprisonment rates going down? Four theories.
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The site in Letcher County, Ky., intended for a new maximum security federal prison was flattened by surface mining.
News November 7, 2017
A Timely Prison Project? Or a G.O.P. Congressman’s Boondoggle?
Even the Trump administration casts doubt on the $444-million plan.
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Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a package of bills to overhaul Louisiana’s criminal justice system in June.
Analysis July 19, 2017
Nine Lessons About Criminal Justice Reform
What Washington can learn from the states.
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Commentary October 28, 2016
Better by Half
How New York City Cut Crime and Incarceration at the Same Time
Vincent Schiraldi and Judith A Greene
In California, sentencing reforms have reduced incarceration rates in state prisons, but not so much in county jails. Above, Madera County Jail in Madera, Calif.
Commentary July 6, 2016
Measuring Incarceration
Don’t overlook local jails.
By Christian Henrichson
David Perdue, R-Ga., center, voted against the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 last month.
Analysis November 6, 2015
The Dissenters
Not everybody is aboard the criminal justice reform bandwagon. Here’s why.
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Justice Lab March 4, 2015
How to Cut the Prison Population by 50 Percent
No, freeing potheads and shoplifters is not enough.
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