PRISON POLICY INITIATIVE INC
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Mission Statement
The nonprofit, nonpartisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting-edge research to expose the broader harms of mass incarceration, and sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society.
About This Cause
The Prison Policy Initiative was founded in 2001 to document and publicize how mass incarceration undermines our national welfare. We have gained national recognition for compiling and presenting up-to-date information about the criminal legal system that empowers policymakers, journalists, advocates, and the general public to participate in the justice reform movement. Frequently cited in traditional media as a reliable and accessible source on a number of incarceration issues, we also have an influential social media presence and have demonstrated success in guiding and informing public discourse on incarceration policy. Our work is a unique combination of research, advocacy, and organizing, and is designed around two goals: achieving real change on specific issues, and building a national consensus around the fact that over-criminalization is hurting our entire society. Highlights of prominent successes • Empowering our movement with the big picture with Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie. This groundbreaking report assembles data on everyone who is incarcerated or confined in different kinds of prisons, jails, and other correctional and detention facilities in the U.S. The main graphic has become the most widely-used visual in the field. • Bringing fairness to the prison and jail phone industry. Some children had to pay $1/minute for a call home from an incarcerated parent. Our research and advocacy put the issue of phone justice on the map and led the Federal Communications Commission to lower the cost of calls home from prisons and jails. Recent wins in Congress have given the FCC new tools to further regulate the industry. We have also successfully pushed state regulators to lower rates in some states, saving families millions of dollars per year in Iowa and even more in California. • Demonstrating that incarceration in every state — even those with relatively progressive policies — is out of line with the international community with the report and interactive graphic States of Incarceration: The Global Context. • Protecting our democracy from the undue influence of the prison system. Our campaign against prison gerrymandering has changed how legislative districts are drawn in 200+ municipalities and over a dozen states. All told, about half the country now lives in a place that has taken action to address the problem. • Protecting family visits from the predatory video call industry that seeks to replace traditional in-person visits with expensive video chats. We put this predatory industry on the national agenda and we’ve won in Massachusetts, California, Texas, Illinois, and Portland, Oregon. Thank you for supporting our work!