We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 21 new reports to the Research Library:

• County-level jail incarceration and preterm birth among non-Hispanic Black and white U.S. women, 1999-2015 Paywall :( by Jaquelyn L. Jahn, Jarvis T. Chen, Madina Agenor, Nancy Krieger, July, 2020
  "Jail incarceration increases non-Hispanic Black and White women's risk of preterm birth." Categories: Health impact Women
• Pathways to Reintegration: Criminal Record Reforms in 2019 by Collateral Consequences Resource Center, February, 2020
  "In 2019, 43 states, the District of Columbia, and the federal government enacted an extraordinary 152 laws aimed at reducing barriers faced by people with criminal records in the workplace, at the ballot box, and in many other areas of daily life." Categories: Community Impact
• "Gladiator School: Returning Citizens' Experiences with Secondary Violence Exposure in Prison"Paywall :( by Meghan A. Novisky & Robert L. Peralta, February, 2020
  "We find that secondary violence was frequently experienced in prison and often took the form of witnessing non-weaponized assaults, weaponized assaults, multi-perpetrator assaults, and homicide." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Reversing the Pipeline to Prison in Texas: How to Ensure Safe Schools AND Safe Students by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, February, 2020
  "Traditional, punitive models of student discipline are not only ineffective, but harmful to students and communities." Categories: Education Youth
• In Trouble: How the Promise of Diversion Clashes With the Reality of Poverty, Addiction, and Structural Racism in Alabama's Justice by Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, February, 2020
  "Fifty-five percent of them made less than $14,999 per year, yet the median amount they reported paying for diversion was $1,600 -- more than ten percent of their total income." Categories: Poverty and wealth Race and ethnicity
• Reconciling Police and Communities with Apologies, Acknowledgements, or Both: A Controlled Experiment by Thomas C. O'Brien, Tracey L. Meares, Tom R. Tyler, February, 2020
  "The evidence suggests that police leaders should combine acknowledgement of responsibility for the mistrust with an apology if they want to enlist the cooperation of people who are least likely to trust the police." Categories: Police and Policing Public Opinion
• Ending the War on Drugs in Travis County, Texas: How Low-Level Drug Possession Arrests are Harmful and Ineffective by TCJC, Grassroots Leadership, Texas Harm Reduction Alliance, and the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, February, 2020
  "Between 2013 and 2017, the number of low-level Possession of a Controlled Substance (POCS) cases in Travis County increased by 43 percent,3 and Travis County courts saw a 66 percent increase in the overall number of new felony drug possession cases." Categories: Drug Policy
• Mortality in Local Jails, 2000-2016 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, February, 2020
  "From 2006 to 2016, suicide was the leading single cause of death in local jails each year; it accounted for nearly a third of jail deaths in 2016 (31%)." Categories: Jails Health impact
• Mortality in State and Federal Prisons, 2001-2016 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, February, 2020
  "The number of deaths in state prisons rose 1.3% from 2015 to 2016 (from 3,682 to 3,729), while the number of deaths in federal prisons fell 15% (from 455 to 388)." Categories: General Health impact
• Laying the Groundwork: How States Can Improve Access to Continued Education for People in the Criminal Justice System by Council of State Governments Justice Center, February, 2020
  "These findings highlight how far all states have to go to adopt the statewide postsecondary education policies and practices necessary to help incarcerated people transition to leading productive lives in the community." Categories: Education Recidivism and Reentry
• Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars by U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, February, 2020
  "Many incarcerated women continue to experience physical and psychological safety harms while incarcerated and insufficient satisfaction of their constitutional rights." Categories: Women
• Changing Course in the Overdose Crisis: Moving from Punishment to Harm Reduction and Health by Vera Institute of Justice, February, 2020
  "U.S. policies, practices, and systems continue to criminalize and punish people who use drugs within and beyond the criminal justice system." Categories: Drug Policy
• From Decarceration to E-Carceration by Chaz Arnett, February, 2020
  "A move from decarceration to e-carceration, or from mass incarceration to mass surveillance, will likely fail to resolve, and may exacerbate, one of the greatest harms of mass incarceration: the maintenance of social stratification." Categories: General
• Incarcerated Adults with Dependent Children by Daniel M. Leeds, Juliana Pearson, Simone Robers, and Leslie Scott, February, 2020
  "More than three-quarters of incarcerated parents with a child under the age of 18 have low literacy (75 percent) and numeracy (89 percent) skills." Categories: Families
• After Cash Bail: A Framework for Reimagining Pretrial Justice by The Bail Project, February, 2020
  "As we look to a future after cash bail, it is clear that transformational change will require a clear commitment to move past the incarceration paradigm and reimagine how society responds to poverty, mental illness, substance abuse, and violence." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• Driving While Black and Latinx: Stops, Fines, Fees, and Unjust Debts by New York Law School Racial Justice Project, February, 2020
  "Traffc debt suspensions disproportionately harm New Yorkers of color, and will continue to do so if the current law remains unchanged." Categories: Race and ethnicity
• County Jail Incarceration Rates and County Mortality Rates in the United States, 1987-2016 by Sandhya Kajeepeta, Caroline G. Rutherford, Katherine M. Keyes, Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, and Seth J. Prins, January, 2020
  "Within-county increases in jail incarceration rates are associated with increases in subsequent mortality rates after adjusting for important confounders." Categories: Health impact Jails
• Restorative Prosecution? Rethinking Responses to Violence by Olivia Dana and Sherene Crawford, January, 2020
  "As progressive prosecutors attempt to take on criminal justice reform, restorative justice offers a path forward, as well as a means of handling violent cases, and complements the reforms they are already carrying out for lower-level, nonviolent cases." Categories: General
• An Organizer's Guide to Confronting Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools in Decarceration Campaigns by Community Justice Exchange, December, 2019
  "This guide provides tools for opposing [risk assessment tools], and an analysis that our opposition to them is one part of a larger organizing strategy to end pretrial incarceration and mass supervision." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• Successful Reentry: A Community-Level Analysis by The Harvard University Institute of Politics Criminal Justice Policy Group, December, 2019
  "Our research showed that several dynamic risk factors - namely health, employment, housing, skill development, mentorship, social networks, and organization type - significantly affect the success of reentry." Categories: Recidivism and Reentry
• A Never-Ending Sentence: The Impact of Criminal Conviction in Project-Based Section 8 Housing Tenant Selection Plans in Cuyahoga County by Reentry Housing Workgroup of the Cleveland Reentry Strategy Coalition, 2015
  "The review of [Tenant Selection Plans] shows that criminal convictions, even from misdemeanors, have a long-term impact on access to Project-Based Section 8 Housing in Cuyahoga County" Categories: Community Impact