Black Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at nearly five times the rate of White Americans, according to a new report by The Sentencing Project. The report found that one in 81 Black adults ...

Historic reductions in U.S. prison populations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately benefitted white people, and the fraction of incarcerated Black and Latino people ...

At the end of 2021, around 1.2 million prisoners were serving time in U.S. state or federal correctional facilities, down 25 percent compared to 2011. While the overall number of incarcerated ...

COVID-19 highlighted the racial disparities in the U.S. justice system, according to a new report. The Black population in U.S. prisons increased while the overall population decreased by record ...

A Kentucky state prison warden issued a memo banning braids, cornrows or dreadlocks for inmates being moved in or out of a facility or in solitary confinement. Carlos Thurman, 50, alleges in a ...

The total prison population has declined by 25% ... The number remains four times that of their white counterparts. Black women’s rate of imprisonment has also been on a decline, though it ...

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, and the Pew Institute, Black men return to prison at a rate higher than their White counterparts.

He thought Delicia was white and white prisoners weren ... These are the ripple effects of the prison’s indifference to Black hair—and Black people. In our culture, hair has always been ...

Black prison staff are facing “entrenched” racism at work such as being called slurs by white colleagues and prisoners on the job, according to a damning new report. Employees described ...