Criminal Justice Reports

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New Orleans:

• Orleans Parish Criminal Justice Accountability Report June 2014
• Orleans Parish Prison Inmate Population Snapshot

Louisiana and other State Profiles:

• Adult and Juvenile Texas Correctional Population Projections 
• Reproductive Injustice: The State of Reproductive Health Care for Women in New York State Prisons
• The Right Investment?: Corrections Spending in Baltimore City 
• Justice Reinvestment in Nebraska Analysis and Policy Framework
• Public Ideology, Minority Threat, and Felony Collateral Sanctions: A State-Level Analysis
• Stuck in the '70s: The Demographics of California Prosecutors
• How Contra Costa County (CA) Drastically Lowered Recidivism and Incarceration Rates
• Justice Reinvestment in North Carolina: More treatment results in state savings.
• Interactive Map: Compare Prison Populations by State from 1978 to 2013
• Colorado Correctional Industries: Performance audit reports marginal profit.
• Pretrial Detention and Jail Capacity in California
• Mortality in Local Jails and State Prisons, 2000-2012 
• Black, Brown and Targeted: A report on Boston Police Department Street Encounters from 2007-2010
• Florida's Aging Prisoner Problem
• States of Incarceration: The Global Context
• 50 State Incarceration Profiles and Louisiana’s
• Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2015
• The Price of Prisons: Louisiana
• Proposition 47: Estimating Local Savings and Jail Population Reductions
• Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States
• Flint DDACTS Pilot Evaluation: Summary of Findings
• Fewer Prisoners, Less Crime: A Tale of Three States

United States Incarceration: ​

• Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families (2015 report by VOTE and 17 community partners across 20 states)​
• State Criminal Justice Advocacy in a Conservative Environment 
• Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the pre-incarceration incomes of the imprisoned
• Incarceration's Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America 
• What Caused the Crime Decline? 
• How Racial Attitudes and Ideology Affect Political Rights for Felons
• Improving outcomes for young black and/or Muslim men in the Criminal Justice System
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2013
• For-Profit Prison Corporations are Undermining Rehabilitation for Corporate Gain
• Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System (Reform Strategy)
• Federal Imprisonment Rate Rises as States' Decline
• Private Prisons, Private Records: Lack of Transparency 
• Registry of Exonerations in 2014
• Semiannual FBI Crime Report
• The Growth of Incarceration in the US: Exploring Causes and Consequences 
• The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Overview, Policy Changes, Issues, and Options
• Waiving the Criminal Justice System: An Empirical and Constitutional Analysis
• Examining Growth in the Federal Prison Population, 1998-2010
• Ethnographic study of the group quarters in the 2010 census: jails and prisons
• A New Approach to Reducing Incarceration While Maintaining Low Rates of Crime
• Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System  
• A meta-analysis of the prevalence of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in incarcerated populations

United States Juvenile System:

• The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Black and White 
• Gang Membership Between Ages 5 and 17 Years in the United States 
• Juvenile Offenders and Victims: 2014 National Report
• Studying Deterrence Among High-Risk Adolescents
• Impact Evaluation of the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) Program at Rikers Island
• Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Court, 2011
• Highlights of the 2010 National Youth Gang Survey
• Public Opinion on Juvenile Justice in America
• Gun Possession among American Youth: A Discovery-Based Approach to Understand Gun Violence
• Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration
• Perceptions of Incarceration by At-Risk-Youth
• Impact of Juvenile Justice Reform
• 2014 Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative Progress Report
• An Overview of Public Opinion and Discourse on Criminal Justice Issues
• Branded for Life: Florida’s Prosecution of Children as Adults under its “Direct File” Statute
• The Comeback and Coming-from-Behind States: An Update of Youth Incarceration in the US
• Growing Up Locked Down:Youth in Solitary Confinement in Jails and Prisons Across US
• 2014 Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
• Fostering Change: How Investing in D.C.’s Child Welfare System can Keep Kids out of the Prison Pipeline

Post-System Impact:

• Relief in Sight? States Rethink the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 2009 - 2014
• How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
• Advancing a Federal Fair Chance Hiring Agenda
• Bridging the Divide:  A new paradigm for addressing safety, crime, and victimization
• Democracy Imprisoned: A Review of the Prevalence and Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the US
• Improving Recidivism as a Performance Measure
• Socio-emotional Impact of Violent Crime
• State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the US, 2010
• The Answer is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in US Federal Prisons
• Risk of Recidivism Facing Offenders upon return to their communities
• Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons
• Risk of Recidivism Facing Offenders upon their Return to Community

Community Impacts and Activism:

• Where Do We Go from Here? Mass Incarceration and the Struggle for Civil Rights
• Victim Advocates and Criminal Justice Reformers are Working Together to Create Safe and Healthy Communities
• Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States
• Public Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Debtors’ Prisons and Economics:

• Louisiana Debtor's Prisons: An Appeal to Justice
• Household Poverty and Nonfatal Violent Victimization, 2008-2012
• First Person Accounts of Criminal Justice Debt
• In for a Penny: The Rise of America’s New Debtors’ Prison
• A Lifetime of Punishment: The Impact of the Felony Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits
• Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons: How Court-Imposed Debts Punish Poor People in Washington
• Entombed: Isolation in the US Federal Prison System
• Congressional Action Mandated to Reduce Rising Costs of Incarceration
• One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
• Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States
• The Outskirts of Hope: How Ohio’s Debtors’ Prisons are Ruining Lives and Costing Communities

Immigration and Incarceration:

• The Criminalization of Immigration and the Privatization of Immigration Detention
• For-Profit Family Detention: Private Prison Corps Making Millions by Locking Up Refugee Families
• Invisible in Isolation: The Use of Segregation and Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention
• Buried Alive: Solitary Confinement in the US Detention System
• Noncitizen Youth in the Juvenile Justice System

Solitary Confinement and Prison Conditions:

• A Solitary Failure: The Waste, Cost and Harm of Solitary Confinement
• Still Buried Alive: Arizona Prisoner Testimonies
• Still Buried Alive: Arizona Prisoner Testimonies on Isolation in Maximum-Security
• Solitary Confinement - Understanding Restrictive Housing Unit Practices Within the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Prisons
• Inside the Box: The Real Costs of Solitary Confinement in New Mexico’s Prisons and Jails
• Entombed: Isolation in the US Federal Prison system
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Colorado’s Continued Warehousing of Mentally Ill Prisoners in Solitary Confinement
• USA: The Edge of Endurance: Prison Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units
• Solitary Confinement as a Public Health Issue
• UN Report on Solitary Confinement as Torture
• Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement

Incarceration of Women: 

• Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected
• A Place to Call My Own: Women and the Search for Housing After Incarceration
• The Shackling of Pregnant Women & Girls in US Prisons, Jails & Youth Detention Centers
• Worse than Second-Class: Solitary Confinement of Women in the United States
• No More Shackles: A Report on the Written Policies of California’s Counties under the New Law that Limits the Use of Restraints on Pregnant Women
• The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women’s Incarceration
• Improving the Juvenile Justice System for Girls: Lessons from the States
• Women’s Pathways to Jail:The Roles & Intersections of Serious Mental Illness, Trauma
• Mothers Behind Bars

LGBT and Transgender People in Prison:

• An Advocate's Guide to Ending Abuse and Combating Imprisonment
• “It’s War in Here”: A Report on the Treatment of Transgender and Intersex People in New York State Men’s Prisons

Incarceration and Mental Illness:

• How Often and How Consistently do Symptoms Directly Precede Criminal Behavior Among Offenders With Mental Illness?

Families and Incarceration:​

• Please support our work to preserve in-person family visits
• Screening Out Family Time: for-profit video visitation
• Incarceration in Fragile Families
• Children of Incarcerated Parents in New York State
• Children with Incarcerated Parents -- Considering Children’s Outcomes in the Context of Complex Family Experiences
• Redefining Relationships: Explaining the Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration for Parenting
• “Picking up the Pieces:” The Rights and Needs of Children and Families Affected by Imprisonment

The War on Drugs:

• The State of Sentencing 2014: Developments in Policy and Practice
• Department of Justice Report on DEA Encounters and Racial Profiling
• Study on Drug Policy Change in NY (allowing alternatives to mandatory minimums)
• The War on Drugs: Wasting Billions and Undermining Economies
• Ending the Drug Wars: Report on the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy
• Collateral Costs: Racial Disparities and Injustice in Minnesota’s Marijuana Laws
• Reforming Marijuana Laws: Which Approach Best Reduces the Harms of Criminalization? A Five-State Analysis
• The Effects of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime
• A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
• The War on Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests

Death Penalty:

• The Death Penalty in 2014: Year End Report 
• Irreversible Error: Recommended Reforms for Preventing and Correcting Errors in the Administration of Capital Punishment
• Victim Gender and the Death Penalty
• The Death Penalty in 2013: Year End Report
• The 2% Death Penalty: How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at an Enormous Cost to All
• The Racial Geography of the Federal Death Penalty

International:

• Presumption of Guilt: The Global Overuse of Pretrial Detention

Law Enforcement:

• CPD Traffic Stops and Resulting Searches in 2013
• Over A Million Dollars A Day: The Daily Waste of the NYPD's Misdemeanor Arrest Practices
• Campus Police: An Increase in Arms

Health and Prison:

• Mortality in Local Jails and State Prisons, 2000-2013 
• The Impact of an Aging Inmate Population on the Federal Bureau of Prisons
• Medical Problems of State and Federal Prisoners and Jail Inmates, 2011-12 

Reentry and the Barriers in Place:

• Communities, Evictions and Criminal Convictions (Report by FICPFM on eliminating barriers to public housing)
• Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition
• The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered 

For an even larger database of reports on incarceration policies, visit The Prison Policy Initiative Research Clearinghouse

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