America’s prison population is plummeting thanks to lower crime rates. The consequences are extraordinary.
Keith Humphreys
Keith Humphreys is a Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University and served as Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Obama Administration. @KeithNHumphreys
Posted inPolitics
Cruel Britannia: Why No Prime Minister Can Get Traction
Starmer out as prime minister is no fix in a country where voters keep denying victors electoral mandates.
Posted inBooks
Where Left and Right Both Go Wrong on Crime
The most promising ways to make America’s streets safer unsettle ideologues on both sides. Maybe that’s why we aren’t pursuing them.
Posted inHealth Care
Expanding Medicaid Coverage to the Incarcerated and Those Recently Released
The bipartisan Reentry Act is smart policy, giving states a powerful tool to reduce the number of drug overdose deaths ravaging the country.
Posted inPolitics
Violent Crime and Mass Incarceration Must be Tackled Together
Conservatives and liberals need to hear each other for us to become a low-crime, low-incarceration society. There are policies that can help.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
Britain’s Labour Party Takes Hit in Local Elections
White working-class voters went Tory in this week’s local elections. Should Democrats in the U.S. be nervous?
Posted inLaw and Justice, Main, Political Animal
COVID-19 Gives Us the Chance to Close Prisons. Here’s Why and How.
In response to the pandemic, prison officials are already reducing inmate populations. Why let a crisis go to waste?
Posted inApril/May/June 2020, Books
Inside the Chaotic, Underfunded World of Probation and Parole
The system is failing the people it supervises—and we all pay the cost.
Posted inFeatured, Political Animal, Politics
The Browning of America Is Making Us Safer
New data reveals the younger, more diverse generation is more law abiding than the generations that fear them.
Posted inFeatured, Health Care, Political Animal, Politics
Opioid Prescriptions in the U.S. Are Down, But It Still Leads the World
New data suggests that neither of the two competing narratives about the crisis are entirely true.
