• Home
• Getting Started
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• How to Use This Web Site
• About the Editors
• Introduction
• Fact Sheets
  • Basic Facts
  • Trends
  • US vs. the World
  • Poverty
  • The Economy
  • System as Racist
  • System as Anti-Youth
  • System as Anti-Queer
  • System as Anti-Women
  • System as Anti-Immigrant
  • Violence
  • Consequences
  • Timeline & History
• Overview
• Conservative Agendas
  • Tough on Crime Movement
  • Criminalizing the Reservation
  • Faith & Religion
  • Women & Reproductive Rights
  • War on Terrorism & Immigrants
  • Youth
  • Victims' Rights
  • Profits from Incarceration
  • Conservative Infrastructure
• Organizing Advice
• Resources
• Endnotes
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Fact Sheets

Start here for materials to help you learn and educate others about the current reality and negative impacts of the criminal justice system. The following factsheets and briefing papers are easy-to-use tools to help you in your advocacy, organizing, and media work.

[All factsheets are in PDF format]

• Basic Facts
• Trends
• US vs World
• System as Racist
• Poverty
• System as Anti-Youth
• System as Anti-Queer
• System as Anti-Women
• System as Anti-Immigrant
• Collatoral Consequences
• The Economy
• How the System Itself is Violent
• Project South: PIC History and Timeline