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We've added 17 new reports to the research clearinghouse:
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Aiming to Reduce Time-In-Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing by The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators, November, 2016
"[T]he new 2016 Report found that 67,442 prisoners were held, in the fall of 2015, in prison cells for 22 hours or more for 15 continuous days or more." See similar reports about:
Prison Procedures Civil Rights
Data Collection Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare
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How Many Americans Are Unnecessarily Incarcerated? by Brennan Center for Justice, December, 2016
"Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population " -- 576,000 people -- " are behind bars with no compelling public safety reason." See similar reports about:
Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Crime and Crime Rates
Data Collection Recidivism and Reentry Sentencing Policy
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Health and Prisoner Reentry: How Physical, Mental, and Substance Abuse Conditions Shape the Process of Reintegration by Urban Institute, February, 2008
"Nearly all returning prisoners -- 8 in 10 men and 9 in 10 women -- had chronic health conditions requiring treatment or management." See similar reports about:
Prisoner Welfare Data Collection
Mental Health Prison Procedures
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How Tough on Crime Became Tough on Kids: Prosecuting Teenage Drug Charges in Adult Courts by The Sentencing Project, December, 2016
"The ability of states to send teenagers into the adult system on nonviolent offenses, a relic of the war on drugs, threatens the futures of those teenagers who are arrested on drug charges, regardless of whether or not they are convicted."
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Juveniles Recidivism and Reentry
Sentencing Policy
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Beyond Second Chances: Returning Citizens' Re-Entry Struggles and Successes In The District of Columbia by Council for Court Excellence, December, 2016
"The population of D.C. Code offenders is starkly homogeneous. Although slightly fewer than half of all D.C. residents are black, more than 96 percent of D.C. Code offenders incarcerated at BOP facilities are black."
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Recidivism and Reentry Community Impact
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Trends in Admission To The New York City Department of Correction 1995-2015 by Misdemeanor Justice Project at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, December, 2016
"From 1995 to 2015, the number of annual admissions to the New York City DOC dropped by nearly half (46.9 percent) from 121,328 to 64,458 admissions." See similar reports about:
Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Crime and Crime Rates
Data Collection Juveniles
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Repurposing: New Beginnings for Closed Prisons by The Sentencing Project, December, 2016
"Since 2011, at least 22 states have closed or announced closures for 92 state prisons and juvenile facilities, resulting in the elimination of over 48,000 state prison beds and an estimated cost savings of over $333 million."
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Community Impact Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
Public Opinion
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Beyond Bars: Keeping Young People Safe at Home and Out of Youth Prisons by The National Collaboration for Youth, December, 2016
"The youth prison is the signature feature of nearly every state juvenile justice system even though it is harmful, ineffective and expensive." See similar reports about:
Juveniles Community Impact
Families Mental Health
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Stemming The Rising Tide: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Youth Incarceration & Strategies for Change by W. Haywood Burns Institute, May, 2016
"Youth are being incarcerated for longer periods of time, with Black and Latino youth having the longest stays out of home." See similar reports about:
Juveniles Data Collection
Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Sentencing Policy
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Crime Against Persons with Disabilities, 2009-2014 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, November, 2016
"40% of violence against persons with disabilities was committed by persons the victim knew well or who were casual acquaintances." See similar reports about:
Civil Rights Civil Rights
Crime and Crime Rates
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Florida: An Outlier in Denying Voting Rights by Brennan Center for Justice, December, 2016
"With roots tracing back to Reconstruction and the Jim Crow period, racial discrimination has stifled the right to vote in Florida for hundreds of years." See similar reports about:
Felon Disenfranchisement Civil Rights
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Caged In: Solitary Confinement's Devastating Harm on Prisoners with Physical Disabilities by American Civil Liberties Union, January, 2017
"In Florida, only 44 of 792 grievances by prisoners with disabilities were resolved from 2013 to 2015." See similar reports about:
Prisoner Welfare Civil Rights
Crime and Crime Rates Jails Prisoner Welfare
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Behind the Badge: How Police View Their Jobs, Key Issues, and Recent Fatal Encounters Between Blacks and Police by Pew Research Center, January, 2017
"27% of all white officers but 69% of their black colleagues say the protests that followed fatal encounters between police and black citizens have been motivated at least to some extent by a genuine desire to hold police accountable."
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Police and Policing Practices Civil Rights
Community Impact Data Collection Police and Policing Practices
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The Death Penalty in Five Florida Counties: Disproportionately Used Against Persons with Significant Mental Impairments by Fair Punishment Project, January, 2017
"These findings have raised a legitimate question as to whether Florida's capital punishment scheme -- even one with a unanimous jury requirement -- is capable of limiting application of the death penalty to the most culpable offenders."
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Death Penalty Civil Rights
Death Penalty Mental Health Prisoner Welfare
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One Year Later: Race Relations and the Emanuel 9 Shooting by University of South Carolina Institute for Public Service and Policy Research, June, 2016
"Among blacks, 30.9% favored the death penalty, while 64.7% believed he should receive life without parole; among whites, 64.2% supported the death penalty if found guilty in this case and 29.7% felt he should be given life without parole."
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Death Penalty Death Penalty
Public Opinion
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Severe Mental Illness and the Death Penalty by American Bar Association, December, 2016
"...[N]one of the current legal mechanisms afford adequate protection against the death penalty to those diagnosed with serious mental disorders or disabilities." See similar reports about:
Death Penalty
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Declining Drug Enforcement After Proposition 47 by Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, January, 2017
"The county data suggests [that] Proposition 47 reduced inconsistencies in the classification of drug possession offenses as felonies or misdemeanors." See similar reports about:
Drug Policy Crime and Crime Rates
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