 | How We Got to Two Million
How did the Land of the Free become the world's leading jailer? | |  | | Incubating Disease
Prisons are rife with infectious illnesses -- and threaten to spread them to the public. | |  | | Bad Investment
Gary Johnson, Republican governor of New Mexico, on why the war on drugs is a waste of money. | |  | | | INCARCERATION ATLAS
Click the map for a state-by-state guide to who's getting locked up -- and at what price.  | What's the Alternative?
Society has to respond to lawbreakers, but it doesn't always have to lock them up. | |  | | Breeding Violence
Locking people up is supposed to make our streets safer, but it may be doing the opposite. | |  | | Left Behind
Hundreds of thousands of children have a parent behind bars. What are the social costs of their loss? | |  | | Liberty and Justice for Some
Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. on the moral costs of mass incarceration. | | |
