It’s time to end mass incarceration. Locking up more and more people for longer and longer doesn’t make us safer.
The U.S. imprisons more people than any other nation. Over 2.3 million adults are currently in U.S. prisons and jails. The incarceration rate in the U.S. has shot up 500% over the past four decades. Yet studies show that locking up more and more people for longer and longer won’t make us safer.
Fear-mongering politicians and sensational, stereotyping media coverage has driven bad policies that lock up greater numbers of people. Poor people of color are overwhelmingly and disproportionately targeted. “Sentencing Reform: Part I – The Power of Fear” is the first film in our new series on sentencing reform. The forthcoming series will highlight the symptoms of mass incarceration and present real, fact-based alternatives. In Part I, we explore the scope and source of mass incarceration.
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