Criminal laws are intricate and usually contain more provisions than just the ones which reach newspaper headlines. Studies done on trends in mass incarceration usually aren’t any more straight forward. The Policy Brief outlines the key aspects of major legislation and research—extracting the core elements of new policy or research in quick and straight forward one page briefings.
By Phillip Reeves
When having a criminal record makes you ten times more likely to be homeless, criminality, regardless of your crime, clearly still brands people with a scarlet letter. Prison Policy Initiative’s report “Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among Formerly Incarcerated People” provides the first look at this specific social effect of incarceration.
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