By Denise Maes, ACLU of Colorado
The Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) has announced that effective February 2013 it will close a wing of its Centennial ... Read More
In the last decade, New York drastically reduced its prison population and at the same time experienced a huge drop in crime. Indiana, on the other hand, ... Read More
A new ACLU report shows how several states have enacted cost-effective laws cutting their unnecessary overreliance and massive spending on prisons while continuing to ... Read More
By Rebecca McCray, Criminal Law Reform Project at 1:05pm
Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate ... Read More
By Rebecca McCray, Criminal Law Reform Project at 12:26pm
June 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon's declaration of a "war on drugs" — a war that has cost roughly a trillion dollars, ... Read More
