We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 24 new reports to the Research Library:

• COVID and Corrections: A Profile of COVID Deaths in Custody in Texas by COVID, Corrections, and Oversight Project, November, 2020
  "In one prison, the Duncan Unit, almost 6% of the incarcerated population has died." Categories: Health impact Conditions of Confinement
• 2020 State Ratings Report: Human Rights Protections for Children in the U.S. Justice System by Human Rights for Kids, November, 2020
  "Our findings reveal that the overwhelming majority of the nation - 42 states - have made minimal to no efforts to create a legal framework to protect the human rights of children in the justice system." Categories: Youth
• How Governors Can Use Categorical Clemency as a Corrective Tool by Urban Institute, November, 2020
  "Though many clemency deliberations are independent case-by-case assessments, in some cases, governors can also extend clemency eligibility categorically to groups of people in prison to mitigate structural issues or accomplish larger reform goals." Categories: General
• The Case Against Pretrial Risk Assessment Instruments by Pretrial Justice Institute, November, 2020
  "RAIs simply add a veneer of scientific objectivity and mathematical precision to what are really very weak guesses about the future, based on information gathered from within a structurally racist and unequal system of law, policy and practice." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• Spend Your Values, Cut Your Losses 2021 Divestment Portfolio: Smart and Safe Justice System Solutions That Put Communities First by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, November, 2020
  "Texas spends the most in the nation on prisons and jails; over the past three decades, it has grown 5x faster than the state's rate of spending on elementary and secondary education." Categories: Economics of Incarceration
• Behavioral Health Crisis Alternatives: Shifting from Police to Community Responses by Vera Institute of Justice, November, 2020
  "Communities must pursue new approaches that minimize trauma and distress, promote dignity and autonomy, and reduce repeat encounters with police for people who experience behavioral health crises." Categories: Mental Health Police and Policing
• Releasing people pretrial doesn't harm public safety by Prison Policy Initiative, November, 2020
  "No matter the type of pretrial reform, the results were the same: Releasing people pretrial did not negatively impact public safety." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• Since you asked: What role does drug enforcement play in the rising incarceration of women? by Prison Policy Initiative, November, 2020
  "Over the past 35 years, total arrests have risen 25% for women, while decreasing 33% for men. The increase among women is largely driven by drugs." Categories: Drug Policy Women
• Dollars and Sense in Cook County: Examining the Impact of General Order 18.8A on Felony Bond Court Decisions, Pretrial Release, and Crime by Safety and Justice Challenge, November, 2020
  "GO18.8A also had no impact on new criminal activity or new violent criminal activity of those defendants released." Categories: Crime and Crime Rates Pretrial Detention
• Naming and Shaming: Violations of the Human Rights of Transgender Persons with Felonies in Texas by Human Rights Clinic, Austin Community Law Center, and Trans Pride Initiative, November, 2020
  "By contributing to and facilitating an environment where the human rights of transgender persons are repeatedly and callously disregarded, Texas violates international treaties and the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States." Categories: LGBT Conditions of Confinement
• Civic Responses to Police Violence by Desmond Ang and Jonathan Tebes, October, 2020
  "We find that exposure to police violence leads to significant increases in registrations and votes. These effects are driven entirely by Blacks and Hispanics and are largest for killings of unarmed individuals." Categories: Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
• Misunderstood and Mistreated: How Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Experience the Texas Criminal Legal System by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, October, 2020
  "Approximately 14,700 people with I/DDs are currently incarcerated in Texas." Categories: Health impact
• Understanding Health Reform As Justice Reform: Medicaid, Care Coordination, and Community Supervision by Square One Project, October, 2020
  "Health system reform built upon the foundation of Medicaid programs can provide many of the health and social supports needed to help people with health problems successfully return and remain in their communities." Categories: Health impact
• Evidence Shows That Most Immigrants Appear for Immigration Court Hearings by Vera Institute of Justice, October, 2020
  "Data from Vera's programs and other studies shows that most immigrants released from custody continue to appear in court when represented by counsel." Categories: Immigration
• The Community Responder Model: How Cities Can Send the Right Responder to Every 911 Call by Center for American Progress, October, 2020
  "Estimates for the share of calls that could be handled by [community responders] range from a low of 21 percent of calls in Detroit to a high of 38 percent in Seattle and Portland." Categories: Police and Policing Mental Health
• Wealth and Retirement: Pondering the Fate of Formerly Incarcerated Men During the Golden YearsPaywall :( by Ngina Chiteji, October, 2020
  "We find that formerly incarcerated men have little wealth accumulated by their late 40s and 50s, that they have limited access to on-the-job pensions, and that some may not even be able to rely on Social Security when they are old." Categories: Poverty and wealth
• MA DOC Expenditures and Staffing Levels for Fiscal Year 2020 by Lifers' Group Inc., October, 2020
  "The DOC spent nearly three-quarters of a billion dollars in Fiscal 2020, a 6% increase or nearly $40 million over Fiscal 2019." Categories: Economics of Incarceration
• New BJS data reveals a jail-building boom in Indian country by Prison Policy Initiative, October, 2020
  "The share of people held pretrial in Indian country jails increased by 20 percentage points (an 80% increase) from 1999 to 2018, and the average length of stay in Indian country jails has doubled since 2002." Categories: Pretrial Detention Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Race and ethnicity
• New BJS data: Prison incarceration rates inch down, but racial equity and real decarceration still decades away by Prison Policy Initiative, October, 2020
  "At the current pace of decarceration, it will be 2088 when state prison populations return to pre-mass incarceration levels." Categories: Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Race and ethnicity
• Punishing status and the punishment status quo: Solitary confinement in U.S. Immigration prisons, 2013-2017 by Konrad Franco, Caitlin Patler, and Keramet Reiter, October, 2020
  "Solitary confinement cases involving immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean are vastly overrepresented in comparison to the share of these groups in the overall detained population." Categories: Conditions of Confinement Immigration Race and ethnicity
• Time-In-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems by The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School and the Association of State Correctional Administrators, September, 2020
  "As of the summer of 2019, an estimated 55,000 to 62,500 prisoners in the United States were held in isolation for an average of 22 hours a day for 15 days." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• New York's Ferguson Problem: How the state's racist fee system punishes poverty, lacks transparency, and is overdue for reform by No Price on Justice, September, 2020
  "A national study found that 34 New York localities are about as reliant, if not more reliant, on fines and fees revenue as Ferguson was during the period investigated." Categories: Poverty and wealth Economics of Incarceration
• Reducing Racial Disparities in Crime Victimization by Anna Harvey and Taylor Mattia, July, 2020
  "We find that successful litigation over racially discriminatory practices substantially reduced both absolute and relative Black crime victimization, without increasing white victimization." Categories: Race and ethnicity Police and Policing
• Hepatitis C Litigation: Healing Inmates as a Public Health Strategy by Robert Katz, April, 2020
  "When an inmate HCV lawsuit brings about the universal treatment of infected inmates, it simultaneously vindicates the inmates' Eighth Amendment rights and maximally advances the public health goal of eradicating HCV. I" Categories: Health impact