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Today, the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. With over 2.3 million men and women living behind bars, our imprisonment rate is the highest it鈥檚 ever been in U.S. history. And yet, our criminal justice system has failed on every count: public safety, fairness and cost-effectiveness. Across the country, the criminal justice reform conversation is heating up. Each week, we feature our some of the most exciting and relevant news in overincarceration discourse that we鈥檝e spotted from the previous week. Check back weekly for our top picks.

The federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention is without a leader, leaving the states to fend for themselves. This editorial calls for President Obama to help our troubled juvenile justice system by nominating an administrator to lead the office.

The Alabama Sentencing Commission is toying with the idea of establishing firmer rules determining the length of sentences for the next legislative session. Though 鈥渢ruth-in-sentencing鈥� laws in other states have proved massively expensive and lead to overcrowding of prisons, lawmakers in Alabama believe victims should know with greater certainty how long defendants will spend behind bars.

Last week, prisoners at Pelican Bay State Prison began a hunger strike to protest the inhumane conditions of their imprisonment. They have since been joined in solidarity by prisoners in 10 other California prisons.

Following the lead of several other states, Missouri state officials have partnered with the Pew Center on the States to look into a data-based analysis of the state鈥檚 troubled criminal justice system.

Though Oregon鈥檚 Department of Corrections says it鈥檚 working with a tighter-than-average budget for 2011-2013, the $1.3 billion set aside for corrections will still eat up a dime of every general fund dollar spent on state government.

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