Jacob Kang-Brown

Jacob Kang-Brown is a researcher at the Vera Institute of Justice and lives in Brooklyn. He is the lead researcher on the Incarceration Trends project, which tracks the changing use of jail and prison in the United States. (May 2019)

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America’s Hidden Gulag

The nationwide federal detention of immigrants in county jails perpetuates a profit-driven system of mass incarceration.

February 19, 2021

America’s Growing Gender Jail Gap

In the course of recent efforts to dismantle mass incarceration, a glaring fact has become clear: while today far fewer men are going to jail than before, the number of women getting incarcerated has stayed stubbornly high. And as a proportion of the US prison population, women are increasing.

May 7, 2019

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