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Prison Policy Initiative
Publishes reports about a variety of Criminal Justice-related topics, such as mass incarceration, phone justice (phone companies regularly over-charge people who are incarcerated to make phone calls), unemployment, and incarceration. Reports are generally written for a general audience

Statistics on Mass Incarceration According to Race and Gender

Survived and Punished: A Few Quick Statistics

The Sentencing Project: The Racial Impact of Mass Incarceration

"Sentencing policies, implicit racial bias, and socioeconomic inequity contribute to racial disparities at every level of the criminal justice system. Today, people of color make up 37% of the U.S. population but 67% of the prison population. Overall, African Americans are more likely than white Americans to be arrested; once arrested, they are more likely to be convicted; and once convicted, they are more likely to face stiff sentences. Black men are six times as likely to be incarcerated as white men and Hispanic men are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as non-Hispanic white men."

Sentencing Project
Produces excellent graphics and reports on sentencing, incarceration, felony disenfranchisement, racial disparity, drug policy, juvenile justice, women, and collateral consequences.
Survived + Punished
Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national coalition that includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations. S&P has affiliates in New York, Chicago, and California.