state of mass incarceration

New Orleans:

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

Louisiana:

• Interactive Map: Compare Prison Populations by State from 1978 to 2013​ 
• States of Incarceration: The Global Context
• 50 State Incarceration Profiles and Louisiana’s​
• The Price of Prisons: Louisiana
• State Criminal Justice Advocacy in a Conservative Environment ​

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United States - Adult: ​

• Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States​​
• 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​​​
• The Federal Prison Population Buildup: Overview, Policy Changes, Issues, and Options
• Waiving the Criminal Justice System: An Empirical and Constitutional Analysis
• The Answer is No: Too Little Compassionate Release in US Federal Prisons
  

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United States - Juvenile:

• The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Black and White 
• Studying Deterrence Among High-Risk Adolescents
• Highlights of the 2010 National Youth Gang Survey
• Public Opinion on Juvenile Justice in America
• Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration
• Impact of Juvenile Justice Reform
• 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​​​​

International:

• Presumption of Guilt: The Global Overuse of Pretrial Detention

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policies & structures that drive mass incarceration

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

The War on Drugs:​

• Department of Justice Report on DEA Encounters and Racial Profiling
• 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​
• 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​​

Prison Profiteering

• Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States
• Private Prisons, Private Records: Lack of Transparency​
• For-Profit Prison Corporations are Undermining Rehabilitation for Corporate Gain 

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Prison practices & conditions 

Illness and Mortality:

• 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​​

Solitary Confinement:

• A Solitary Failure: The Waste, Cost and Harm of Solitary Confinement
• 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
• Entombed: Isolation in the US Federal Prison system
• Solitary Confinement as a Public Health Issue
• UN Report on Solitary Confinement as Torture
• Psychiatric Effects of Solitary Confinement​

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
• 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​

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impact of mass incarceration on different people

Families:​

• Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families​
• Screening Out Family Time: for-profit video visitation
• Incarceration in Fragile Families
• 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
• Aging Behind Bars: Trends and Implications of Graying Prisoners in the Federal Prison System  ​

Poor and Working-Class People:

• Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the pre-incarceration incomes of the imprisoned
• ​Louisiana Debtor's Prisons: An Appeal to Justice
• 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​​​

People who Migrate:

• 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

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
• The Changing Racial Dynamics of Women’s Incarceration
• Women’s Pathways to Jail: The Roles & Intersections of Serious Mental Illness, Trauma
• Mothers Behind Bars

LGBTQ+ and Transgender People:

• 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​

People with Mental Health Conditions:

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

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post-incarceration barriers 

• Relief in Sight? States Rethink the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 2009 - 2014​
• Democracy Imprisoned: A Review of the Prevalence and Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the US
• State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the US, 2010​
• Risk of Recidivism Facing Offenders upon their Return to the Community
• 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 
  

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activism, reform and abolition

• 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
• Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System (Reform Strategy)
• A New Approach to Reducing Incarceration While Maintaining Low Rates of Crime
• 2014 Race for Results: Building a Path to Opportunity for All Children
• 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
• Improving outcomes for young black and/or Muslim men in the criminal justice system
• Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons
• One Strike and You’re Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records
• Study on Drug Policy Change in NY (allowing alternatives to mandatory minimums)
• Improving the Juvenile Justice System for Girls: Lessons from the States

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