We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 30 new reports to the Research Library:

• Torture By Another Name: Solitary Confinement in Texas by Texas Civil Right Project, October, 2019
  "Our continued investigation has confirmed that people are still suffering severe harm in Texas' solitary confinement cells and are being deprived of minimal life necessities." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Rhetoric, Not Reform: Prosecutors & Pretrial Practices in Suffolk, Middlesex, and Berkshire Counties by CourtWatch MA, October, 2019
  "Prosecutors in Massachusetts may talk about reform and decarceration, but the limited available data suggest their practices don't live up to their rhetoric." Categories: Trials
• Association of Restrictive Housing During Incarceration With Mortality After Release by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Josie Sivaraman, David L. Rosen, et al., October, 2019
  "Compared with individuals who were incarcerated and not placed in restrictive housing, individuals who spent any time in restrictive housing were 24% more likely to die in the first year after release, especially from suicide and homicide." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Atlas of Surveillance: Southwestern Border Communities by Electronic Frontier Foundation, October, 2019
  "We found 36 local government agencies using automated license plate readers (ALPR), 45 outfitting officers with body-worn cameras, and 20 flying drones." Categories: Police and Policing
• The Cannabis Effect on Crime: Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Colorado and Washington State by Ruibin Lu et al., October, 2019
  "Our results suggest that marijuana legalization and sales have had minimal to no effect on major crimes in Colorado or Washington." Categories: Drug Policy Crime and Crime Rates
• Diversion to What? Evidence-Based Mental Health Services that Prevent Needless Incarceration by Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, September, 2019
  "Investing in community-based mental health services provides numerous benefits, including a reduction in law enforcement intervention and incarceration." Categories: Mental Health
• Literature Locked Up: How Prison Book Restriction Policies Constitute the Nation's Largest Book Ban by Pen America, September, 2019
  "With over two million Americans incarcerated, the book-restriction regulations within the United States carceral system represent the largest book ban policy in the United States." Categories: Conditions of Confinement Education
• The Effect of Scaling Back Punishment on Racial Disparities in Criminal Case Outcomes by John MacDonald and Steven Raphael, September, 2019
  "The findings from this study suggest that policy reforms that scale back the severity of punishment for criminal history and active criminal justice status for less serious felony offenses may help narrow racial inequalities in criminal court dispositions" Categories: Race and ethnicity Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Assessing Potential Impacts of 2020 Bail Reforms in New York City by Data Collaborative for Justice, September, 2019
  "Had the 2020 Bail Reforms been in place in 2018, 20,349 of the 31,609 cases where bail was set would have resulted in release without bail." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• On Track: How well are states preparing youth in the juvenile justice system for employment? by CSG Justice Center, September, 2019
  "Most incarcerated youth are not provided the workforce development services necessary to obtain viable employment in the community after release." Categories: Youth
• Disordered Punishment: Workaround Technologies of Criminal Records Disclosure and the Rise of a New Penal Entrepreneurialism by Alessandro Corda and Sarah E. Lageson, September, 2019
  "Criminal records, or proxies for them, are now actively produced and managed by third parties via corporate decision-making processes, rather than government dictating boundaries or outsourcing duties to private actors." Categories: Privatization
• Voters Support Reducing the Use of Fines and Fees in Sentencing by Data for Progress and The Justice Collaborative, August, 2019
  "Sixty-four percent either somewhat or strongly supported limiting the use of fines and fees to those able to pay." Categories: Public Opinion
• The benefits and implementation challenges of the first state-wide comprehensive medication for addictions program in a unified jail and prison setting (PAYWALLED) by Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein et al., August, 2019
  "A majority of participants discussed program benefits such as reduced withdrawal symptoms, decreased prevalence of illicit drug use in the facility, improved general environment at the RIDOC, and increased post-release intentions to continue MAT." Categories: Drug Policy
• State Supreme Court Diversity by Brennan Center for Justice, July, 2019
  "Twenty-four states currently have an all-white supreme court bench, including eight states in which people of color are at least a quarter of the state's general population." Categories: Race and ethnicity
• New Era of Public Safety: A Guide to Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing by The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, March, 2019
  This report was developed to give individuals, communities, activists, advocacy organizations, law makers, and police departments the knowledge to carry out police reform. Categories: Police and Policing
• Cops and No Counselors: How the Lack of School Mental Health Staff is Harming Students by ACLU, March, 2019
  "We found that schools with police reported 3.5 times as many arrests as schools without police. As a result, students with disabilities and students of color are frequently sent into the criminal system." Categories: Police and Policing
• Criminal Justice Contact and Health Service Utilization among Women across Health Care Settings: Analyzing the Role of Arrest (PAYWALLED) by Kathryn M. Nowotny, Anastasiia Kuptsevych-Timmer, Carrie Oser, March, 2019
  "Specifically, women recently arrested are hospitalized and seek care at the emergency department at higher rates than non-recently arrested women and this may be associated with their vulnerable mental and behavioral health status." Categories: Women Health impact
• Police Contact and the Legal Socialization of Urban Teens by Amanda Geller and Jeffrey Fagan, February, 2019
  "We find that both personal and vicarious police contact are associated with increased legal cynicism...Legal cynicism is amplified in teens reporting intrusive contact but diminished among teens reporting experiences characterized by procedural justice." Categories: Police and Policing
• The Great Decoupling: The Disconnection Between Criminal Offending and Experience of Arrest Across Two Cohorts by Vesla M. Weaver, Andrew Papachristos, and Michael Zanger-Tishler, February, 2019
  "The criminal justice system, we argue, slipped from one in which arrest was low and strongly linked to offending to one where a substantial share of Americans experienced arrest without committing a crime." Categories: Police and Policing
• Bail and Pretrial Detention: Contours and Causes of Temporal and County Variation by Katherine Hood and Daniel Schneider, February, 2019
  "The politicization of judicial offices, partisan affiliations of district attorneys and governors, income inequality, unemployment rates, and the size of the black population all seem to be related to bail-setting practices." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• Level of Criminal Justice Contact and Early Adult Wage Inequality by Robert Apel and Kathleen Powell, February, 2019
  "On the contrary, formerly incarcerated blacks earn significantly lower wages than their similar-age siblings with no history of criminal justice contact (and even their similar-age siblings who have an arrest record)." Categories: Economics of Incarceration
• Can Restorative Practices Improve School Climate and Curb Suspensions? by RAND Corporation, December, 2018
  "Suspension rates of African American students and of those from low-income families also went down in PERC schools, shrinking the disparities in suspension rates between African American and white students andbetween low- and higher-income students." Categories: Education
• State Medical and Geriatric Parole Laws by National Conference of State Legislatures, August, 2018
  "While the vast majority of states have medical parole laws and a number of states have a geriatric parole law, they are rarely used." Categories: Probation and parole
• Dying in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison by The Promise of Justice Initiative, July, 2018
  "Focusing on data from 2012 to 2016, the report notes that inadequate medical and mental healthcare and insufficient staff training has left to a mortality rate among prisoners that is several times higher than the national average." Categories: Conditions of Confinement
• Postincarceration Fatal Overdoses After Implementing Medications for Addiction Treatment in a Statewide Correctional System by Traci C. Green et al., April, 2018
  "We observed a large and clinically meaningful reduction in postincarceration deaths from overdose among inmates released from incarceration after implementation of a comprehensive MAT program in a statewide correctional facility." Categories: Drug Policy
• Face Off: Law Enforcement Use of Face Recognition Technology by Electronic Frontier Foundation, February, 2018
  "Law enforcement officers can use mobile devices to capture face recognition-ready photographs of people they stop on the street; surveillance cameras boast real-time face scanning and identification capabilities." Categories: Police and Policing
• Sexual Victimization and Mental Illness Prevalence Rates Among Incarcerated Women: A Literature Review by Marie E. Karlsson and Melissa J. Zielinski, January, 2018
  The results from this review builds on the literature suggesting that sexual victimization is a pathway to prison for women, likely through the development of mental illness, substance abuse, and repeated exposure to interpersonal trauma. Categories: Women
• In Brief: Examining the Changing Racial Composition of Three States' Prison Populations by CSG Justice Center, March, 2015
  "In each of these cases, closer inspection of the data shows that these states experienced considerable reductions in the overall number of people being admitted to prison, and that the decline in admissions has been steepest for blacks and Hispanics." Categories: Race and ethnicity Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Value to the Soul: People with Criminal Convictions on the Power of the Vote by New Jersey Institute for Social Change, 2015
  In 2019, New Jersey denies the right to vote to 102,245 people. That is more people than reside in New Jersey's capital city of Trenton, and more people than live in Camden, Hoboken, and in hundreds of other municipalities in New Jersey. Categories: Felon Disenfranchisement
• Law enforcement and criminal justice personnel interactions with transgender people in the United States: A literature review (PAYWALLED) by Rebecca L. Stotzer, April, 2014
  "Large percentages of transgender people in institutional settings also reported abuse committed by criminal justice personnel, including harassment, assault, and a lack of protection from other inmates." Categories: LGBT