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Support us Can you make a tax-deductible gift to support our work? More than half reported non-consensual sexual contact while incarcerated. The unmet health needs of people in prison States fall far short of their duty to meet the health needs of incarcerated people.

Prison Policy Initiative newsletter? Our goal is to reduce recidivism by giving inmates the feeling of love, affection, and belongingness which is instinctually vital to all people both free and imprisoned. Research Library?

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Stay Informed Email:. Prison gerrymandering campaign? You can also see a selection of our best original research on this topic on our Women and gender page. Criminal justice policy in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world.

At Black & Pink, we coordinate a nationwide PenPal program in which we match incarcerated LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS with PenPals who correspond, build relationships, and participate in harm reduction and affirmation. Prison gerrymandering?

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And our other newsletters: Research Library updates? All profit, no risk The bail industry exploits cracks and loopholes in the legal system to avoid accountability, while growing its profits. For research on other criminal justice topics, see our Research Library homepage.

Prison Gerrymandering Project We are leading the movement to protect our democracy from the Census Bureau's prison miscount. Recommended Reading:. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people in prison face difficulties which non-LGBTQ prisoners and non-incarcerated LGBTQ people do not, due to belonging to a minoritised subsection of both the prison populations and the LGBTQ community.

Compare your state's use of the prison to the world at large Criminal justice policy in every region of the United States is out of step with the rest of the world. Recidivism is greatly reduced when an ex-offender has support from family or friends, to return to after incarceration.

For an incarcerated LGBTQIA2S+ person, corresponding with someone on a regular basis is itself a harm reduction strategy, giving that person a support. Bisexual people experienced victimization at almost seven times the rate of straight people.

The bail industry exploits cracks and loopholes in the legal system to avoid accountability, while growing its profits.