Explore: Prison Reform

Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, improve the effectiveness of a penal system, reduce recidivism or implement alternatives

prison reform movements generally seek to reduce prison populations. A key goal is to improve conditions by reducing overcrowding. Prison reformers also

work as an early prison reformer. Howard began inspecting prisons while serving as High Sheriff of Bedfordshire and toured prisons across the United

Office plans to build an additional 750-bed facility. The Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition opposes the plan, calling on former Democratic Mayor Mitch

bipartisan efforts to reform the prison system in the United States. For nearly 10 years, the Kochs advocated for several reforms within the criminal justice

reputation as a radical prison reformer. His report of a week-long incognito stay inside New York's Auburn Prison indicted traditional prison administration in

male felons, young offenders, and debtors. The prison reform charity, the Howard League for Penal Reform, is Howard's namesake. The Penitentiary Act passed

their earliest incarnation to the modern prison industrial complex. Davis argues that incarceration fails to reform those it imprisons, instead systematically

Prison abolition is a movement that, in contrast to prison reform, seeks to abolish prisons as an institution. Instead of viewing the violence, discrimination

May 2025[update]. Kardashian has become more politically active by lobbying for prison reform and clemency, and, as of 2019[update], is under a four-year law apprenticeship