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Mass Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry

Human Rights Reports

ACLU: Prisoners' Rights: American Civil Liberties Union is an American nonprofit organization working "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States."

Human Rights Reports: "The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements." From the U.S. Department of State.

Amnesty International Report: Annual report on the state of the world’s human rights. 154 countries covered in 2021/22.

Human Rights Watch: Investigations and reports on abuses in some 100 countries.

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: "The IACHR is a principal and autonomous organ of the Organization of American States (“OAS”) whose mission is to promote and protect human rights in the American hemisphere." IACHR publishes periodic reports on human rights in OAS Member Countries, as well as Thematic Reports.