NEW: Our latest report — a comprehensive 50-state "lifer census" — reveals alarming data on long-term imprisonment and examines the prevalence and implications of life sentences across the country.

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“There’s a lack of awareness that there can be a future for a closed prison beyond incarceration, a lack of imagination about what a closed prison site can be transformed into." — @nicoleporter

We're actively working w/ Maryland partners & justice-impacted organizers to support legislation that addresses the harms of mass incarceration & advances racial justice. Join us & our coalition partners in Annapolis on 2/17 for the 2025 MD Day of Action

RT @CCA_NY: Yesterday was #CommunitiesNotCages' biggest advocacy day YET! 500+ New Yorkers took to the Capitol to march the halls, rally an…

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Yesterday, our Director of Youth Justice Josh Rovner testified on Maryland's SB422 to call on lawmakers to end the automatic charging of kids as adults. #TreatKidsLikeKids #CareNotCages

RT @RDunhamDP: How the U.S. Turned Away From the Death Penalty and Toward ‘Death by Incarceration.’ The number of people imprisoned for lif…

RT @RAPPcampaign: RIGHT NOW: Over 500 of us are rallying in Albany to demand #CommunitiesNotCages. We need to pass the Second Look Act, E…

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RT @CURBprisons: “There’s a lack of awareness that there can be a future for a closed prison beyond incarceration, a lack of imagination ab…

RT @CCA_NY: TUESDAY: There's still time to join us. Join #CommunitiesNotCages for our FIRST 2025 advocacy day on February 4. We've got a bl…

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Celebrating Black History Month today – and everyday! Advancing criminal legal reform means centering racial justice in our efforts. Ending mass incarceration must include combating racial inequality and disparity:

The United States makes up roughly 4% of the world population but holds an estimated 40% of the world’s life-sentenced population.

In @baltimoresun Opinion: The media's focus on youth crime in Maryland is out of proportion, writes Michael Pinard and Monique L. Dixon of the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law.

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In @nytmag, @jformanjr writes about declining youth incarceration rates and the effectiveness of diverting young people away from the justice system.

"A December study of coverage by media outlets in Baltimore during the first half of 2024, found that the news organizations gave disproportionate coverage to youth crime, “providing their audiences with skewed and misleading information.”"

In @CourantOpinion: I was one of the lucky ones. Here’s how Connecticut’s Second Look law is falling short, writes @FullCitizensC Eddie DeLeon.