We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 28 new reports to the Research Library:

• The Many Roads to Reintegration: A 50-State Report on Laws Restoring Rights and Opportunities After Arrest or Conviction by Collateral Consequences Resource Center, September, 2020
  "The area where there is least consensus, and that remains most challenging to reformers, is managing dissemination of damaging criminal record information." Categories: Community Impact
• The Science of Solitary: Expanding the Harmfulness Narrative by Craig Haney, September, 2020
  "Solitary confinement represents a particularly toxic, dangerous subset of a much broader, scientifically well-documented, extremely harmful condition--the deprivation of meaningful social contact." Categories: Community Impact
• An Examination of Women's Experiences with Reporting Sexual Victimization Behind Prison Walls Paywall :( by April Surrell and Ida M. Johnson, September, 2020
  "The interviewees identified stigma and gossip, officer camaraderie, and fear of retaliation as the dominant barriers to reporting and investigating incidents of sexual assault." Categories: Women Conditions of Confinement
• Lives on the Line: Women with Incarcerated Loved Ones and the Impact of COVID-19 Behind Bars by Essie Justice Group and Color of Change, September, 2020
  Only 7% of respondents reported that their incarcerated loved one had adequate access to basic necessities to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Categories: Women Families Health impact
• Racial Disparities in the Massachusetts Criminal System by The Criminal Justice Policy Program, Harvard Law School, September, 2020
  "The Commonwealth significantly outpaced national race and ethnicity disparity rates in incarceration, imprisoning Black people at a rate 7.9 times that of White people and Latinx people at 4.9 times that of White people." Categories: Race and ethnicity
• In the Shadows: A Review of the Research on Plea Bargaining by Vera Institute of Justice, September, 2020
  "Researchers estimate that more than 90% of criminal cases that end in conviction are the result of plea bargaining, a low-visibility, off-the-record, and informal process that usually occurs far from open court." Categories: Trials
• Monitoring Pretrial Reform in Harris County: First Sixth Month Report of the Court-Appointed Monitor by Independent Monitor for the Odonnell v. Harris County, September, 2020
  "Second, contrary to bail industry and prosecutor propaganda, the data shows that recidivism has not increased, but is actually slightly down. This suggests that systems can release far more people while also reducing the rates of new arrests." Categories: Jails Pretrial Detention
• No Access to Justice: Breaking the Cycle of Homelessness and Jail by Vera Institute of Justice, August, 2020
  "Researchers have found that homelessness is between 7.5 and 11.3 times more prevalent among the jail population, and in some places the rate is much higher." Categories: Jails
• Public opinion and the politics of collateral consequence policies Paywall :( by Travis Johnston and Kevin H Wozniak, August, 2020
  "We find that Americans generally oppose benefit restrictions, though support for these policies is higher among Republicans and people with higher levels of racial resentment." Categories: Public Opinion
• Medicare and People Leaving Incarceration: A Primer for California Advocates During the Pandemic by Justice in Aging, August, 2020
  "Though access to Medicare benefits is suspended during incarceration, Medicare enrollment rules remain in place. This affects both individuals who turn 65 while in custody and those who were enrolled in Medicare before incarceration." Categories: Health impact
• An Analysis of Court Imposed Monetary Sanctionsin Seattle Municipal Courts, 2000-2017 by Frank Edwards and Alexes Harris, August, 2020
  "Seattle Municipal Courts still engage in a system of monetary sanctions that leads to disproportionate and negative outcomes for Seattle residents, and in particular, people of color." Categories: Poverty and wealth Race and ethnicity
• The First Step Act of 2018: One Year of Implementation by United States Sentencing Commission, August, 2020
  Since authorized by the First Step Act, 2,387 out of 226,000 people incarcerated in federal prisons received a reduction in sentence as a result of retroactive application of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010. Categories: Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement by Brennan Center for Justice, August, 2020
  "Alarmingly, internal FBI policy documents have also warned agents assigned to domestic terrorism cases that the white supremacist and anti-government militia groups they investigate often have "active links" to law enforcement officials." Categories: Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
• The Other Epidemic: Fatal Police Shootings in the Time of COVID-19 by ACLU, August, 2020
  "From January 1, 2015, to June 30, 2020, police officers shot and killed 5,442 people." Categories: Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
• State supervision, punishment and poverty: The case of drug bans on welfare receipt by Amanda Sheely, August, 2020
  "I find that poverty is lower among people with drug convictions in states that opted out of the drug ban, compared to full ban states." Categories: Drug Policy Poverty and wealth
• Impacts of Private Prison Contracting on Inmate Time Served and Recidivism by Anita Mukherjee, August, 2020
  "The empirical analysis shows that private prison inmates serve 90 additional days. This is alternatively estimated as 4.8 percent of the average sentence." Categories: Privatization
• Life Years Lost to Police Encounters in the United States by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, August, 2020
  "This implies a loss of roughly 16,000 years of life for recent cohorts of Black men." Categories: Race and ethnicity Police and Policing
• More Work to Do: Analysis of Probation and Parole in the United States, 2017-2018 by Kendra Bradner, Vincent Schiraldi, Natasha Mejia, and Evangeline Lopoo, August, 2020
  "From 2008 to 2018, the decline in the number of people on probation has failed to keep pace with the decline in arrests, resulting in an increase in the rate of probation, per arrest." Categories: Probation and parole Probation and parole
• How Many Complaints Against Police Officers Can Be Abated by Incapacitating A Few "Bad Apples?" by Aaron Chalfin and Jacob Kaplan, August, 2020
  "Our analysis suggests that surgically removing predictably problematic police officers is unlikely to have a large impact on citizen complaints." Categories: Police and Policing
• Correctional Populations in the United States, 2017-2018 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, August, 2020
  "An estimated 6,410,000 persons were held in prisons or jails or were on probation or parole in 2018." Categories: Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Probation and parole
• Officer-Involved Shootings in Texas: 2016-2019 by Texas Justice Initiative, August, 2020
  "Shootings of civilians and their subsequent deaths caused by officers have been increasing over the four years" Categories: Police and Policing
• Effects of school resource officers on school crime and responses to school crime by Gottfredson et al., July, 2020
  "The study findings suggest that increasing SROs does not improve school safety and that by increasing exclusionary responses to school discipline incidents it increases the criminalization of school discipline." Categories: Education Police and Policing
• Which Side Are We On: Can Labor Support #BlackLivesMatter and Police Unions? by David Unger, July, 2020
  "An estimated 60 to 80 percent of police officers nationwide are unionized,twice the 34 percent unionization rate for the entire public sector, and at least ten times the rate of private sector unionization." Categories: Police and Policing
• Law Enforcement Super Pacs and the Fight for Reform by Democratic Policy Center, June, 2020
  "This report outlines an under-investigated aspect of law enforcement union power: their use of independent expenditure groups to influence elections and their ability to hire top Democratic consultants to execute their campaigns." Categories: Police and Policing
• Polluting our prisons? An examination of Oklahoma prison locations and toxic releases, 2011-2017Paywall :( by Maggie Leon-Corwin, Jericho R McElroy, Michelle L Estes, Jon Lewis, Michael A Long, January, 2020
  "Our results find that prison zip codes have greater TRI emissions compared to non-prison zip codes." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Luke Petach and Anita Alves Pena, 2020
  "While income inequality is associated with higher rates of incarceration for all race and ethnicity groups (although not always in statistically significant fashion), the effect is largest for non-white, nonHispanic individuals." Categories: Economics of Incarceration Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Race and ethnicity
• The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes by RAND Corporation, January, 2019
  "Over the ten-year study period, holistic defense in the Bronx resulted in nearly 1.1 million fewer days of custodial punishment." Categories: Trials
• 96 Deaths in Detention: A View of COVID-19 in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as Captured in Death Notices by World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School, 2015
  "They reveal substantial shortcomings that are an indictment of the Bureau, the Department of Justice, and the current Administration, and the American public that has proven too willing to write off the lives of millions of incarcerated people." Categories: Health impact