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Rebecca Vallas, Melissa Boteach, Rachel West, and Jackie Odum // Removing Barriers to Opportunity for Parents With Criminal Records and Their Children - Center for American Progress

4.4.18

Removing Barriers to Opportunity for Parents With Criminal Records and Their Children - Center for American Progress: Nearly four decades of mass incarceration and overcriminalization have made the United States the world leader in incarceration and arrests. The number of Americans in federal and state prisons and jails has quintupled over the past four decades—nearly 2.3 million Americans are behind bars today—leaving the U.S. incarceration rate at more than six times the average across developed nations. Communities of color—and particularly, men of color—are hit hardest, with black men six times more likely and Latino men two-and-a-half times more likely to be incarcerated than white men.

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