Incarceration and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Incarceration and Punishment Data, Race and Ethnicity

• The Growing Racial Disparity in Prison Time (The Marshall Project)

• Black men get longer sentences for the same federal crime as white men (Vox)
• The Criminalized Majority (African American Intellectual Black History Society)

Incarceration and Punishment Data, Community/Geographic Data

• The hidden scandal of US criminal justice? Rural incarceration has boomed (The Guardian)

• How small-town jails drive America's high incarceration rate (NBC News)
• We Wanted To Find Troubled Jails, So We Counted The Bodies (Huffington Post)

Incarceration and Punishment Data, Psychiatric Disorders

• Marketing Psychiatric Drugs to Jailers and Judges (The Atlantic)
• America’s Largest Jail is a Mental Hospital (The Atlantic)

• Big Jump Seen In Number Of Inmates Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs In California (NPR)
• America's 3 Largest Psychiatric Facilities Are Jails (National Public Radio)

Privatization of the Criminal Justice System

• Inside a Private Prison: Blood, Suicide and Poorly Paid Guards (The New York Times)
• More Than 3,100 Corporations Are Profiting From Mass Incarceration (Black Enterprise)
• Why are for-profit US prisons subjecting detainees to forced labor? (The Guardian)
• It’s Time to Stop Using Inmates for Free Labor (Common Dreams)
• Justice Dept. announces effort to phase out use of private prisons (Yahoo News, ABC News)

Capital Punishment (Death Penalty)

• Is there a Humane Way to Kill a Criminal? (BBC)
• The Death Penalty Has No Place in the 21st Century (United Nations News)

Recidivism and Repeat Offenders

• Prisons are failing. It’s time to find an alternative (World Economic Forum)

• How Prison Changes People (BBC)
• Report Documents U.S. Recidivism Rates for Federal Prisoners (Huff Post)
• A massive review of the evidence shows letting people out of prison doesn’t increase crime (Vox)
• Homeboy Industries is a struggling success story (Los Angeles Times)

Incarceration & Rehabilitation

• This is why Californians with convictions can’t move on with their lives (Think Progress)

• These Programs Are Helping Prisoners Live Again On The Outside (Huff Post)
• A New Approach To Incarceration In The U.S.: Responsibility (National Public Radio)
• Building a Prison-to-School Pipeline (The New Yorker)
• ASecure, Modern Education Where It’s Desperately Needed (The Atlantic)
• New lease on life for canines, inmates through Project Good Dog (Sentinel & Enterprise)
• These Programs Are Helping Prisoners Live Again On The Outside (HuffPost)
• 'I took someone’s life — now I am giving back': In California's prisons, inmates teach each other how to start over (Los Angeles Times)
• To fix communities devastated by mass incarceration, let's go back to school (NBC News)
• ‘You go, girl!’: Joy, tears as 19 Washington prison inmates earn college degrees (Seattle Times)

Families & Incarceration

• Mothers Behind Bars (Searchlight)
  

• The Hidden Cost of Incarceration (The Marshall Project)

• Pregnant and shackled: why inmates are still giving birth cuffed and bound (The Guardian)
• Mass Imprisonment and Extended Family Members (Sociology Science)

• Nearly Half of Americans Have a Family Member Who's Been Imprisoned (Gizmodo)

• How Incarcerated Parents Are Losing Their Children Forever (The Marshall Project)
• Father Reentry and Child Outcomes (Urban Institute)

• Children of the Incarcerated Face Multiple Traumas (The Crime Report)

• Pregnant Behind Bars (NPR)

• Mass Imprisonment and the Extended Family (Sociological Science)

• Daughters visit moms in prison, but during these visits hugs are allowed and encouraged (Los Angeles Times)

Socioeconomic Status & Incarceration

• Soft Cell: California Inmates Can Pay for Cushier Accommodations (NBC News)

Ethnicity & Incarceration

• How the Racial Differences in Prison Deaths Illustrate Inmate Afflictions (Ebony)

Gender & Incarceration

• Inside a Radical Experiment to Transform the Lives of Incarcerated Women (Glamour)

• Locked Up and Vulnerable: When Prison Makes Things Worse (BBC)
• The Female Incarcerated Population is Growing Rapidly Because of the Sex Abuse to Prison Pipeline (Shondaland)
• Dire Realities of Being a Trans Woman in a Men's Prison (Them)
• Why Makeup Matters to Women in Prison (Racked)    

Incarceration General

• Should prisons be in business with one of the most dangerous industries in America? (Southern Poverty Law Center)

• Inmates Risk Lives Working Alongside Firefighters for $2 a Day (Newsweek)

• The Myth Behind Long Prison Sentences (BBC)
• The Unique Way Dutch Treat Mentally Ill Prisoners (BBC)
• 'This Place Is Crazy' (Esquire)
• This Is What Your Final Minutes in Prison Feel Like (Vice)
• How We Misunderstand Mass Incarceration (The New Yorker)

Solitary Confinement

• Neuroscientists Make a Case against Solitary Confinement (Scientific American)

• How Solitary Confinement Haunts Me, Five Years After My Release (Vice)
• Solitary Confinement Makes Prisoners Behave Badly and Screws up Their Brains (Newsweek)
• Losing a Son in the New York State Prisons (The New Yorker)
• Lessons From Rikers Island (The Atlantic)
• Losing a Son in the New York State Prisons (The New Yorker)

Punishment in Schools and the School-to-Prison Pipeline

• Discipline disparities and discrimination in schools (Brookings)
• Fact Sheet: How Bad Is the School-to-Prison Pipeline? - Tavis Smiley (PBS SoCal)
• The School to Prison Pipeline (Everyday Sociology Blog)