Additional Resources
Brookings Institution
– Did the 1994 crime bill cause mass incarceration?
Design Justice for Black Lives
– Resource List
The Marshall Project
Prison Policy Initiative
– Mapping disadvantage: The geography of incarceration in New York State
– Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
Vera Institute of Justice
– After Weeks of Protest, a Look at Policy Changes in U.S. Policing
– People in Prison in 2019
Statistics
- Over two million Americans are imprisoned, the most in the world. The US has over 300,000 more prisoners than the next country, Chinaprisonstudies.org
- 13% of the country’s population is Blackcensus.gov
- But they account for 27% of all arrestsojjdp.gov
- Black youths are particularly targeted by law enforcement, accounting for 35% of all arrests of youthsojjdp.gov
- Nearly 50% of Black males are arrested by the age of 23reuters.com
- Black men are 5.8 times more likely to be imprisoned than white menbjs.gov