Bureau of Justice Statistics — State and Local Issues — Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

State and Local Issues

Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.

Since you asked: Is it me, or is the government releasing less data about the criminal justice system?

“We’ve heard this question from a few advocates and journalists who, like us, depend on the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and other government data sources for timely information about the justice system. And while monitoring changes in federal data collections isn’t a core part of our work, we have observed a troubling trend: Since 2017, data releases are slowing down.“

Prison Policy Initiative

November 14, 2019

Mass Incarceration, OvercriminalizationPhillip ReevesNovember 14, 2019Prison Policy Initiative, Bureau of Justice StatisticsComment

State and Local Issues

Galsworthy CJR Program

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