Prisons
We will work with partners to reduce incarceration.
The United States is home to 5 percent of the world’s population and nearly 25 percent of its prisoners, and our prisons are excessively punitive, often subjecting people to inhumane conditions. We incarcerate people of color at disproportionately higher rates. And because few prisons offer treatment, job training, or cultures of respect and dignity, many people are set up to fail when they come home.
Working with partners, we’re developing an ambitious strategy reducing costly and ineffective long sentences, including implementing and evaluating a menu of policies that can produce better outcomes for all. And we’re supporting state governments to make reentry more successful, particularly when it comes to improving health care, and employment prospects, both in prison and after release.
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