We, as a country, are in the era of mass incarceration. The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any democratic nation on the planet. There are nearly 2 million people locked up in our country’s prisons or jails, not to mention the thousands more on some form of electronic monitoring, probation, or parole.

An estimated 19 million people, both currently and formerly incarcerated, are burdened with the collateral consequences of a felony conviction, such as restrictions on voting, housing, education, employment, and more. An estimated 79 million people have a criminal record of some kind, and millions more have been arrested for misdemeanors. Over 113 million adults have had an immediate family member incarcerated for at least one night. Mass incarceration indeed.

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