Our Evidence-Based Obsession
Better research won’t get us out of our crisis of mass incarceration.
6 posts in ‘racial justice’
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.
How we're helping journalists report more deeply, more precisely, and more carefully on the law, on the criminal system, and towards justice.
Data-driven approaches to reform can reinforce aspects of a system that’s rotten to the core.
Our government's history of oppression compels us to free those Black revolutionaries aging in our prisons.
Understanding the democratic appeal of retrenchment and reaction to movements for racial justice has never been more urgent.