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Originally posted by Wanda Bertram on 04/30/2025

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Hi everyone,

I'm writing to share two new resources that the Prison Policy Initiative released this morning.

As you all know, the first 100 days of President Trump's second term have seen a flurry of executive orders, funding cuts, and other policy changes impacting incarceration and policing in America. To compile these actions in one place, and to show how they fit within a larger push to return to "tough on crime" politics, we released a new tracker on our website that highlights the ways the administration is making the criminal legal system larger, harsher, and less effective.

Our new tool, which will be updated regularly, highlights the ways that the Trump administration is eviscerating due process norms, undermining solutions that reduced incarceration and improved community safety, encouraging the use of extreme sentences and harsh law enforcement tactics, making prisons and jails worse, and reducing transparency in the carceral system.

This new tracker is available at: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/federaltracker.html 

We also released a new guide on our website where we highlight organizations focused on "crimmigration," or the intersection of criminal and immigration law. Since Trump took office again, we have, understandably, gotten a lot of questions about his policies targeting immigrants. Other organizations focused on these issues have much more expertise than we do, so we published a list of resources, experts, and advocacy groups - if you have questions, the links on this page may have the answers.

This new resource page is available at: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/04/30/crimmigration_resource_roundup/ 

Please get in touch if you have any questions about these resources. I hope they're useful in your work.

Take care,

Wanda

Prison Policy Initiative