We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 25 new reports to the Research Library:

• Racial prejudice predicts police militarization by Tyler Jimenez, Peter J. Helm, Alexis Wilkinson, & Jamie Arndt, December, 2020
  "Studies 2 and 3 are the first to explicitly connect these variables, finding that racial prejudice is predictive of both support for police militarization and actual police acquisitions of military equipment." Categories: Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
• Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison by Impact Justice, December, 2020
  "Budget cuts and stagnant spending have led to fewer hot meals, smaller portions, lower-quality protein, fewer fresh fruits and vegetables, and more ultra-processed foods, as well as poorly equipped and ill-supervised kitchens that compromise quality." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Learned Helplessness, Criminalization, and Victimization in Vulnerable Youth by Square One Project, December, 2020
  "In the United States and worldwide, youth detainment has become an immediate, catch-all response to challenges perceived as affecting public order and safety." Categories: Youth
• Counterevidence of crime-reduction effects from federal grants of military equipment to local police Paywall :( by Gunderson et al, December, 2020
  "We show that the 2014 data are flawed and that the more recent data provide no evidence that 1033 SME reduces crime." Categories: Police and Policing
• Exploring Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System Over the Year Following First Arrest Paywall :( by Padgaonkar et al, December, 2020
  "Black youth committed fewer offenses prior to arrest than White youth, Black and Latino youth were more likely to be formally processed, and Black youth were most likely to be rearrested." Categories: Race and ethnicity Youth
• Experience to Action: Reshaping Criminal Justice After COVID-19 by Council on Criminal Justice, December, 2020
  "The size, scale, and scope of the criminal justice system, along with the absence of effective public health coordination, posed a significant obstacle to COVID-19 prevention and control." Categories: Health impact
• The Prison Industry: How It Started, How It Works, How It Harms by Worth Rises, December, 2020
  "This report maps the twelve sectors of the prison industry and details the extraction of wealth from the families that have been most disproportionately brutalized by over-policing, mass criminalization, mass incarceration, and mass surveillance." Categories: Privatization
• Hotbeds of Infection: How ICE Detention Contributed to the Spread of COVID-19 in the United States by Detention Watch Network, December, 2020
  "ICE's failure to release people from detention during the pandemic added over 245,000 cases to the total U.S. caseload." Categories: Health impact Immigration
• The Accreditation Con: A Broken Prison and Detention Facility Accreditation System That Puts Profits Over People by Office of Senator Elizabeth Warren, December, 2020
  "It reveals that the ACA's private prison accreditation system is riddled with conflicts of interest, lacks transparency, and is subject to zero accountability even though millions in taxpayer dollars to flow to the ACA and private prison companies." Categories: Conditions of Confinement Privatization
• Prisons shouldn't be charging medical co-pays - especially during a pandemic by Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2020
  "Our December survey of medical co-pay policies shows that some states are reinstating medical co-pays as COVID-19 continues to spread in prisons." Categories: Health impact Privatization
• Just how overcrowded were prisons before the pandemic, and at this time of social distancing, how overcrowded are they now? by Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2020
  "41 states are currently operating at 75% or more of their capacity, with at least 10 of those state prison systems and the federal Bureau of Prisons operating at more than 100%." Categories: Conditions of Confinement Health impact
• The research is clear: Solitary confinement causes long-lasting harm by Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2020
  "Prisons and jails are already inherently harmful, and placing people in solitary confinement adds an extra burden of stress that has been shown to cause permanent changes to people's brains and personalities." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Incarcerated people and corrections staff should be prioritized in COVID-19 vaccination plans by Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2020
  "38 of the 49 states addressed (or seemed to address) incarcerated people as a priority group at all, in the original plans or in later updates. But in many states, correctional staff are prioritized before incarcerated people." Categories: Health impact
• Trends in Issuance of Criminal Summonses in New York City, 2003-2019 by Data Collaborative for Justice, December, 2020
  "Almost half of all marijuana possession summonses were issued to Black people (45.5%). Over 40% of summonses issued for disorderly conduct, public consumption of alcohol, and violations of transit authority rules were issued to Black people." Categories: Race and ethnicity Police and Policing
• States Can Shorten Probation and Protect Public Safety by The Pew Charitable Trusts, November, 2020
  "Many people on supervision serve longer terms than are necessary for public safety." Categories: Probation and parole
• Reducing Violence Without Police: A Review of Research Evidence by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, November, 2020
  "Non-policing approaches to violence prevention can produce significant benefits without the attendant harms of policing and punishment." Categories: Crime and Crime Rates
• Medicaid's Evolving Role in Advancing the Health of People Involved in the Justice System by The Commonwealth Fund, November, 2020
  "Siloes between correctional and community health care providers disrupt care coordination and create gaps in treatment and health services that can be life-threatening." Categories: Health impact
• Emergency Department visits for depression following police killings of unarmed African Americans Paywall :( by Abhery Das, Parvati Singh, Anju K.Kulkarni, and Tim A. Bruckner, November, 2020
  "Police killings of unarmed African Americans correspond with an 11% increase in ED visits per 100,000 population related to depression among African Americans in the concurrent month and three months following the exposure (p < 0.05)." Categories: Police and Policing Race and ethnicity
• Officer Use of Force and the Failure of Oversight of New York City Jails by Jennifer Ferentz, November, 2020
  "Ultimately, this Note argues the actors responsible for changing the rules governing New York City jails and the practices carried out within them are abdicating that responsibility when it comes to this violence." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Institutional Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in American Prisons by Meghan A. Novisky, Chelsey S. Narvey, and Daniel C. Semenza, October, 2020
  "Correctional facilities remain high-risk locales for outbreaks and it is imperative that policies moving forward protect those who are most vulnerable while ensuring equity in access to those protections." Categories: Health impact
• Defund Sheriffs: A Toolkit for Organizers by Working Families, Sheriffs for Trusting Communities, Faith in Action Fund, & Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, October, 2020
  "Defunding sheriffs should be an urgent priority for anyone concerned with mass incarceration and police violence." Categories: Police and Policing Jails
• Institutionalizing inequality in the courts: Decomposing racial and ethnic disparities in detention, conviction, and sentencingPaywall :( by Marisa Omori and Nick Petersen, September, 2020
  "Our findings indicate that inequality is, in part, institutionalized through legal case factors." Categories: Race and ethnicity Trials
• "Defunding the Police" and People With Mental Illness by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, August, 2020
  "We should dramatically reduce the role of the police in the lives of people with mental illness. As the same time, mental health services should be expanded and racial disparities in their delivery eliminated." Categories: Police and Policing Mental Health
• The "Radical" Notion of the Presumption of Innocence by Square One Project, May, 2020
  "Of the approximately 612,000 individuals that are currently being held in county jails, the vast majority, about 460,000, are awaiting some type of adjudication and thus are presumed innocent." Categories: Jails Pretrial Detention
• The Impact of Incarceration on Food Insecurity among Households with Children by Sally Wallace and Robynn Cox, October, 2012
  "Food insecurity for adults and households with children (a less dire level of food insecurity than very low food security) is affected by parental incarceration under most specifications with magnitudes of impact from 4 to 15 percentage points." Categories: Poverty and wealth Families