A closer look
Our Evidence-Based Obsession
Better research won’t get us out of our crisis of mass incarceration.
3 posts in ‘evidence-based reform’
Better research won’t get us out of our crisis of mass incarceration.
A close analysis of prison data can help us think concretely, and strategically, about the tradeoffs of different approaches to decarceration and prison closures.
Data-driven approaches to reform can reinforce aspects of a system that’s rotten to the core.