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We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 30 new reports to the Research Library:
- The Immediate Consequences of Federal Pretrial Detention
by Stephanie Holmes Didwania, June, 2019
"Using data spanning 71 federal district courts, I find that pretrial
release reduces a defendant's sentence length by around 67 percent and
increases the probability that a defendant will receive a sentence below
the recommended sentencing range."
Categories: Pretrial Detention Sentencing Policy and Practices
- Not in my Exam Room: How U.S. Immigration Enforcement Is Obstructing Medical Care
by Physicians for Human Rights, June, 2019
"Public health research has documented widening racial and ethnic health
disparities as a result of punitive and discriminatory immigration
enforcement practices within the militarized border zone."
Categories: Immigration Health impact
- Paid in Full: A Plan to End Money Injustice in New Orleans
by Vera Institute of Justice, June, 2019
"Money injustice is deeply unfair and harmful to those directly impacted,
exacerbates poverty and racial inequality, wastes scarce taxpayer dollars,
and does not deliver the safety all people value."
Categories: Pretrial Detention Economics of Incarceration
- The Gendered Burdens of Conviction and Collateral Consequences on Employment
by Joni Hersch and Erin E. Meyers, June, 2019
"Licensing restrictions, stigma, and perceived risk in hiring decisions in
female-dominated occupations and industries, along with barriers to
childcare subsidies are all likely to exert a heightened burden on women."
Categories: Women Recidivism and Reentry
- Confined and Costly: How Supervision Violations Are Filling Prisons and Burdening Budgets
by Council of State Governments, June, 2019
"https://csgjusticecenter.org/confinedandcostly/"
45% of state prison admissions nationwide are due to violations of
probation or parole.
Categories: Probation and parole
- Reconsidering the "Violent Offender"
by Executive Session on the Future of Justice Policy, May, 2019
"A meaningful decrease in the United States' historically high rates of
incarceration will require that reforms extend to people imprisoned for
offenses considered violent."
Categories: General
- Thinking About Emerging Adults and Violent Crime
by Emerging Adult Justice Project, May, 2019
"Viewed through this lens, punishment oriented approaches to violent acts
are inadequate. Instead, punitive criminal justice policy often perpetuates
violence by adding to the socio-economic disadvantage in which violence can
flourish."
Categories: Community Impact General
- More Black than Blue: Politics and Power in the 2019 Black Census
by The Black Futures Lab, May, 2019
"More than half (55 percent) of respondents have personally had a negative
interaction with the police at some point, and 28 percent have had at least
one negative interaction in the last 6 months."
Categories: Race and ethnicity Police and Policing Public Opinion
- Aggressive Policing and Academic Outcomes: Examining the Impact of Police
by Joscha Legewie, Chelsea Farley, Kayla Stewart, May, 2019
"Aggressive policing in communities can harm Black boys' educational
performance, as measured by state tests."
Categories: Police and Policing Education Race and ethnicity
- Justice "cost points": Examination of privatization within public systems of justice
by Alexes Harris, Tyler Smith, Emmi Obara, May, 2019
"Even though justice institutions primarily remain public entities, private
corporations are running many key justice system programs and generating
large profits from captive populations."
Categories: Privatization
- Levers of Change In Parole Release And Revocation
by Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, May, 2019
"Paroling authorities have continued to occupy an influential, but low
visibility niche, across the landscape of corrections. Parole boards and
the release systems they drive exert a large impact on prison populations
that is seldom acknowledged."
Categories: Probation and parole
- Evaluation of North Carolina's Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Program
by RAND Corporation, May, 2019
"Housing, employment, and transportation were among the top referrals to
services provided to Pathways students, followed by family and substance
abuse treatment services."
Categories: Education Recidivism and Reentry
- Unlocking Potential: Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education
by Vera Institute of Justice, May, 2019
The presence of higher education in prisons has the potential to reshape
the ways in which incarcerated people--and their future potential--are
viewed, by shifting the perspectives of corrections staff, faculty,
administrators, families and students.
Categories: Education
- Gone but Not Forgotten: The Untold Stories of Jail Deaths in Washington
by Columbia Legal Services, May, 2019
Over 200 people died in Washington jails between January 1, 2005 and June
15, 2016.
Categories: Jails
- The Safe Alternatives to Segregation Initiative: Findings and Recommendations for the Louisiana Department
of Public Safety and Corrections
by Vera Institute of Justice, May, 2019
"17.4 percent of people incarcerated in Louisiana's state-operated prisons
were housed in some form of segregated housing, which is approximately 3.9
times the estimated national average of 4.5 percent."
Categories: Conditions of Confinement
- A natural experiment study of the effects of imprisonment on violence in the community
by Harding et al., May, 2019
"Being sentenced to prison had no significant effects on arrests or
convictions for violent crimes after release from prison."
Categories: Probation and parole Community Impact
- Does Locked Up Mean Locked Out? The Effects of the Anti-Drug Act of 1986 on Black Male Students' College
Enrollment
by Tolani Britton, April, 2019
"The results suggest that Black males had a 2.2% point decrease in the
relative probability of college enrollment after the passage of the
Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986."
Categories: Drug Policy Education
- Do Private Prisons Affect Criminal Sentencing?
by Christian Dippel and Michael Poyker, March, 2019
"We found that a doubling of private prisons' capacities causes a moderate
increase in the sentencing length of 23 days, but has no effect on the
probability of getting a prison term."
Categories: Privatization
- Promoting a New Direction for Youth Justice Strategies to Fund a Community-Based Continuum of Care and
Opportunity
by Urban Institute, March, 2019
"Structural inequalities result in the reality that some communities simply
do not have the resources to offer all youth the same access to education,
jobs, health care, supports, and opportunities that promote healthy
development and safe neighborhoods."
Categories: Youth
- Prosecutors and Frequent Utilizers: How Can Prosecutors Better Address The Needs of People Who Frequently
Interact with the Criminal Justice and Other Social Systems?
by Institute for Innovation in Prosecution at John Jay College, February, 2019
"These considerations shift the focus of prosecution from punishment to
problem solving, and metrics of success beyond conviction and recidivism
rates to individual and community wellbeing."
Categories: Community Impact
- Moving Beyond Youth Prisons: Lessons from New York City's Implementation of Close to Home
by Columbia University Justice Lab, February, 2019
New York City's Close to Home initiative represented more than moving
jurisdictional control over residential services from one place to another.
Rather, it was a fundamental shift in philosophy, which prioritized
communities over incarceration.
Categories: Youth
- Promoting Reentry Success Through Increased Access to Social Security Benefit
by American Jail Association, February, 2019
"Jails that connect people experiencing disabling health conditions to
Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefits programs can see
significant reductions in recidivism rates."
Categories: Jails Health impact
- How Police Technology Aggravates Racial Inequity: A Taxonomy of Problems and a Path Forward
by Laura Moy, February, 2019
"Police technology may (1) replicate inequity in policing, (2) mask inequity
in policing, (3) transfer inequity from elsewhere to policing, (4)
exacerbate inequitable policing harms, and/or (5) compromise oversight of
inequity in policing."
Categories: Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
- Investing in Futures: Economic and Fiscal Benefits of Postsecondary Education in Prison
by Vera Institute of Justice, January, 2019
"Expanding access to postsecondary education in prison is likely to reduce
recidivism rates, resulting in a decrease in incarceration costs across
states of $365.8 million per year."
Categories: Education Recidivism and Reentry
- The State of Black Immigrants
by Black Alliance for Just Immigration, January, 2019
"Black immigrants are disproportionately represented among immigrants facing
deportation in immigration court on criminal grounds."
Categories: Race and ethnicity Immigration
- Expanding Medicaid Access to Halfway House Residents: Early Qualitative Findings from Connecticut's
Experience
by Urban Institute, December, 2018
"Residents no longer have to contend with their fears of returning to the
medical unit of a correctional facility for care, and they perceive that
Medicaid gives them access to their choice of higher-quality providers."
Categories: Health impact
- Sharks and Minnows in the War on Drugs: A Study of Quantity, Race and Drug Type in Drug Arrests
by Joseph E. Kennedy, Isaac Unah, and Kasi Wahlers, December, 2018
"This Article is the first to conclusively establish that the war on drugs
is being waged primarily against those possessing or selling minuscule
amounts of drugs."
Categories: Drug Policy
- Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
by Alma Cohen and Crystal S. Yang, June, 2017
"Exploiting the random assignment of cases to judges, we find that
Republican appointed judges sentence black defendants to longer prison
terms than similar whites compared to Democratic appointed judges."
Categories: Trials
- Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration: Evidence across four decades
by Robert Adelman, Lesley Williams Reid, Gail Markle, Saskia Weiss, and Charles Jaret, September, 2016
"Our results indicate that immigration is consistently linked to decreases
in violent (e.g., murder) and property (e.g., burglary) crime throughout
the time period."
Categories: Crime and Crime Rates Immigration
- Aggressive Policing and the Mental Health of Young Urban Men
by Geller et al., December, 2014
"Participants who reported more police contact also reported more trauma and
anxiety symptoms, associations tied to how many stops they reported, the
intrusiveness of the encounters, and their perceptions of police fairness."
Categories: Police and Policing
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