Mass incarceration

“We would hope, in an ideal world, that after this event, Cornell students would feel inspired to speak out and to write to lawmakers to end mass incarceration as we know it in the United States,” said Chris Elliott ’20.

Graph showing who profits from mass incarceration. (Hint: It's not just the private prison companies.)

“Alternatives” like invasive electronic monitoring turn communities into cages and further exploit people.

The country’s prison industry has little regard for where its facilities are located—even if that means building on noxiously polluted ground....

Organizations like Planting Justice reduce recidivism and impact on inmates, taxpayers, communities and the environment.

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Next year marks 50 years since rates of imprisonment rapidly increased in the U.S. Washington University sociology professor Hedwig Lee explains how that’s impacted people with family members behind bars.