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[av_three_fifth first] [av_textblock size=’18’ font_color=” color=”] We don’t need to tell the 2.2 million men and women doing time how dangerous, unhealthy, and inefficient U.S. incarceration is. Prisoners know firsthand: they’re in for lengthy sentences that don’t fairly match the crime, suffering in overcrowded facilities, fearful of violence, tolerating unhealthy conditions, enduring unjust limits on…

[av_three_fifth first] [av_textblock size=’18’ font_color=” color=”] Legislators, policymakers, and regulators struggle today against a broken criminal justice system: Corrections facilities are crowded and budgets overspent, but costs grow, while recidivism rates are among the highest in the world. Studies show that crime is not reduced by lengthy imprisonment, by a criminal justice system with only rudimentary…

[av_three_fifth first] [av_textblock size=’18’ font_color=” color=”] The harm done to the families of the incarcerated – especially children – is a severe consequence of the criminal justice system. There are 1.1 million incarcerated fathers and 120,000 imprisoned mothers in the U.S., reports the Pew Charitable Trusts. More than 2.7 million U.S. children have an incarcerated…

[av_three_fifth first] [av_textblock size=’18’ font_color=” color=”] Federal and state authorities have made incarceration a primary weapon in the war on crime and drugs, resulting in skyrocketing imprisonment rates rising by 700% since the 1970s. Today, 2.2 million Americans are doing time; 1 in 100 adults are behind bars in a criminal justice system costing $210 billion…

Brandon Sample Executive Director Brandon founded Prisology in 2013 after witnessing firsthand for more than 16 years the many flaws of the U.S. criminal justice system. Through Prisology, Brandon seeks to share his cutting edge ideas and unique perspective on criminal justice reform.Brandon holds a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Vermont Law School. He received his…

What is Prisology? Who We Are The criminal justice system is broken and on track to cost $2 trillion in the next ten years, while showing little good for all the expense. Prisology is a national non-profit organization dedicated to fixing that system, for the benefit of taxpayers, policymakers, prisoners, ex-offenders, their families … and…

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