The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. At the end of 2019, there were 2.1 million people behind bars in the United states, it incorporates 1.43 million people under the custody of Federal and state prisons and around 745,200 local jails. Mass incarceration in the US has led to several obstacles such as overcrowding, infringement...
On January 13, 2022, the Department of Justice announced that a new rule has been submitted to the Federal Register implementing the Time Credits program required by the First Step Act for persons incarcerated in federal facilities who committed nonviolent offenses. As part of the implementation process, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) has begun transferring eligible inmates out...
The United States have the highest rate of Covid-19 cases and largest incarcerated population in the world. The “Covid Prison Project” outlines how this pandemic is impacting the incarcerated people in the all 50 States of the United States. As of 12th January 2022, the covid-19 cases among the incarcerated in prisons are 476,484 and death rates of incarcerated...
