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LACUNY Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable
The Services for Incarcerated People Roundtable provides a forum for librarians who support, or are interested in supporting, library services for incarcerated people to discuss current issues, broaden their understanding, and raise awareness of information barriers within the carceral system. The Roundtable connects CUNY librarians with other librarian-led groups, such as Prison Library Support Network, that provide direct services to incarcerated people, and serves as a resource for CUNY groups such as the UFS Committee on Higher Education in the Prisons and those working in prison education programs. https://lacunysips.commons.gc.cuny.edu/
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Prison Policy Initiative’s Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie (2025 edition)
The Prison Policy Initiative just released the 2025 edition of its flagship report, Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie. The report offers the most comprehensive view of the nearly 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S., showing what types of facilities they are in and why. It also serves as a primer on the size and scope of the criminal legal system and busts 10 of the most persistent myths about mass incarceration and crime. The report shows prisons and jails continuing to lock up more people after a decade of consistent declines, and that the incarcerated population grew by about 2% overall, with significant spikes in the incarceration of immigrants and young people.
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