Covering the mass incarceration system, Part 2

Overcoming barriers to information

In Part 1 of this series, we covered the challenges of visiting and communicating with incarcerated people. Here, we’ll talk about how to handle issues in accessing information held by jails and prisons.

Understanding the system

Though the number of incarcerated people has roughly quadrupled since 1980 and government spending has ballooned as well, there’s little standardized data about incarceration and its outcomes.

Each of the nation’s...