This month, the Montana Innocence Project will seek to explain some of the reasons Indidisproportionality make up our prison and jail populations with a series of stories published each week. Today’s story is about over-policing and over-criminalization. Indigenous peoples are overrepresented in jails and prisons. Nationally, from 2000-2019, the population of Indigenous peoples in jails … Continue reading Over-policing, over-criminalization contributes to disproportionate incarceration of Indigenous peoples