The Restoring Promise initiative, a partnership between the South Carolina Department of Corrections and Vera, has created housing units in South Carolina prisons that foster dignity, accountability, and healing, resulting in a 73% decrease in violent infractions and an 83% decrease in stays in solitary confinement.
Mass incarceration is a costly and ineffective response to crime, and decarceration can help reduce the carceral system’s footprint and allow for investment in resources and services that improve health and safety.
Incarceration is a public health crisis that affects the health and well-being of incarcerated people, corrections staff, their families, and entire communities, resulting in increased rates of chronic medical conditions, mental health issues, and poor health outcomes.
Mass incarceration is a public health crisis that harms the health and well-being of incarcerated people, corrections staff, families, and communities, and is disproportionately detrimental to Black people, with the impact of immigration detention only exacerbating the problem.
ICE’s mass deportation agenda threatens to dramatically escalate the use of detention, which is plagued by abuse and neglect, and the Trump administration’s detention and deportation agenda diverts billions from investments that foster real public safety.
The U.S. government is using tattoos and clothing to determine who gets to stay in the country and who is subject to indefinite imprisonment in a Salvadoran prison, with many of the men deported being innocent migrants who followed all necessary procedures when seeking asylum.