Budget Group Demands ‘Accountability’ from California Prison Agency
By The Vanguard Staff SACRAMENTO, CA – The California Dept. of Corrections should “comprehensively explore opportunities for…
Public Service Announcement Launched Urging Americans to ‘Wake Up’ to 50-Year Mass Incarceration Crisis
By Audrey Sawyer WASHINGTON, DC – For the last 50 years, the United States has advanced punitive…
New Report Finds Imprisonment Rate of Black Men Falls by Nearly 50% Since 2000 – Pushback Threatens Continued Progress
By Kapish Kalita WASHINGTON, DC – The Sentencing Project recently released a report titled “One in Five:…
New Jersey Bail Reform: Major Prison Population Praised but ACLU Charges ‘Racial Disparity’ Needs to Be Addressed
By Isabella Walker and Citlalli Florez NEWARK, NJ – The ACLU of New Jersey—which has argued State…
Ending 50 Years of Mass Incarceration: The Sentencing Project Claims Urgent Reform Needed to Protect Future Generations
By Paloma Sifuentes, Michael McCutcheon and Emily Saroyan WASHINGTON, DC – A half century ago, in 1973,…
STUDY: Private Prison Population Peaks in United States
By Rena Abdusalam WASHINGTON, DC – Representing eight percent of the state and federal prison population in…
COVID-19 Era Incarcerations Fall: Will it Last?
By Katherine Coviello WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. is the world leader in incarceration with just under…
Medical, Public Health Experts Urge President-Elect Transition COVID Advisory Board to Reduce Incarcerated Populations
By Carlin Ross WASHINGTON D.C. – Two-hundred experts in the medical and public health community sent a…
CDCR Healthcare workers to Gov. Newsom – “If CDCR does not release more than half of the prison population, stop all transfers, more people will die.”
(Dashboard updates daily M-F) By Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag CDCR Confirmed COVID-19 Cases and Outcomes…
A Visual Timeline of COVID-19 in CDCR’s San Quentin
By Nikki Suzani, Julietta Bisharyan & Mella Bettag This visualization is created by the Covid In-Custody Project — an…
SF Public Defender Calls for Release of Immigrant Detainees, Philly DA Urges Reduction of Prison Population to Prevent Outbreak
SF Public Defender Calls for Release of Immigrant Detainees at Yuba County Jail and Mesa Verde Detention…
