We've added 16 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Screening Out Family Time: The for-profit video visitation industry in prisons and jails by Prison Policy Initiative, January, 2015
  (In order to stimulate demand for their low-quality product, jails and video visitation companies work together to shut down the traditional in-person visitation rooms and instead require families to pay up to $1.50 per minute for visits via video.) See similar reports about:
  Families Jails
• Video Visiting in Corrections: Benefits, Limitations, and Implementation Considerations by National Institute of Corrections, December, 2014
  "Video visiting can be a positive enhancement to in-person visiting when implemented in a way that balances the goals of the facility and the needs of incarcerated individuals and their families." See similar reports about:
  Families
• When All Else Fails, Fining the Family: First Person Accounts of Criminal Justice Debt by Center for Community Alternatives, January, 2015
  "Debt is paid not only by those convicted of crimes, but also by their families (or friends) who are the last stop before re-incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Families Recidivism and Reentry
• Campus Law Enforcement, 2011-12 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, January, 2015
  "About 75% of the campuses were using armed officers, compared to 68% during the 2004-05 school year." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• A Natural Experiment in Reform: Analyzing Drug Policy Change In New York City, Final Report by Vera Institute of Justice, January, 2015
  "Individuals in the Diversion Group were rearrested at a lower rate than those in the Sentenced Group. Therefore, there is a law enforcement benefit of $146 and a court system benefit of $886 per person in treatment." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Drug Policy
• Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2014 by Federal Bureau of Investigation, January, 2015
  (Preliminary figures indicate that law enforcement agencies throughout the nation showed an overall decrease of 4.6 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first 6 months of 2014 when compared with 2013 figures.) See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Advancing a Federal Fair Chance Hiring Agenda: Background Check Reforms in Over 100 Cities, Counties, & States Pave the Way for Presidential Action by National Employment Law Project, January, 2015
  "More than 100 jurisdictions, including 13 states, the District of Columbia, and 96 cities and counties, have adopted "ban the box" and other fair chance hiring reforms, often in tandem with criminal justice reform priorities." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Exonerations in 2014: The National Registry of Exonerations by The National Registry of Exonerations, January, 2015
  "The National Registry of Exonerations has recorded 125 exonerations in 2014. The previous highest total was 91 in 2012." See similar reports about:
  Trials
• Closer to Home: An Analysis of the State and Local Impact of the Texas Juvenile Justice Reforms by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, January, 2015
  "Youth incarcerated in state-run facilities are 21 percent more likely to be rearrested than those who remain under supervision closer to home." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Private Prisons, Private Records by Boston University School of Law, January, 2015
  "Without access to operational and personnel information, practitioners and advocates are unable to determine with any reasonable degree of confidence whether many private facilities are operated in humane, productive, and cost effective ways." See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization
• Department of Corrections Colorado Correctional Industries Performance Audit by Colorado Office of the State Auditor, January, 2015
  "Although statute requires CCI to operate in a profit-oriented manner, CCI's industries operations earned profit margins on average of less than 1 percent from Fiscal Years 2009 through 2014." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Prison Programs
• Review of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Use of Cold Consent Encounters at Mass Transportation Facilities by Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, January, 2015
  "The DEA does not collect sufficient data on cold consent encounters to enable it or the OIG to assess whether the encounters are conducted in an unbiased or effective manner." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy
• End of an Era? The Impact of Drug Law Reform in New York City by Vera Institute of Justice, January, 2015
  "The National Institute of Justice-funded study found that drug law reform, as it functioned in the city soon after the laws were passed, led to a 35 percent rise in the rate of diversion of eligible defendants to treatment." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy
• Growth in Federal Prison System Exceeds States' by Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project, January, 2015
  "However, between 2007 and 2013, many states made research-driven policy changes to control prison growth, reduce recidivism, and contain costs. While the federal imprisonment rate continued to rise during that period, the state rate declined." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Black Lives Matter: Eliminating Racial Inequity in the Criminal Justice System by Sentencing Project, February, 2015
  (The report identifies four key features of the criminal justice system that produce racially unequal outcomes, beyond the conditions of socioeconomic inequality that contribute to higher rates of some crimes in marginalized communities.) See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• High-Risk Early Adolescents' Perceptions of Jail and Offender Experiences by Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, 2014
  "The majority of UII interviews contained statements of violence (64.8%) and drugs (32.4%)." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Public Opinion