We've added 23 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Social Media Monitoring in Boston: Free Speech in the Crosshairs by ACLU Massachusetts, February, 2018
  From 2014-16 the Boston Police Dept. used a social media surveillance system to gather data irrelevant to law enforcement concerns. It treated ordinary citizens as justifiable targets of surveillance, without deterring or solving serious crimes. See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Community Impact
• Investing Justice Resources to Address Community Needs by Urban Institute, February, 2018
  This report provides an overview of a Colorado based program designed to coordinate the flow of resources to community-led organizations providing direct services to formerly incarcerated people navigating the reentry process. See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Community Impact
• The Gender Divide: Tracking women's state prison growth by Prison Policy Initiative, January, 2018
  "This report sheds more light on women in the era of mass incarceration by tracking prison population trends since 1978 for all 50 states." See similar reports about:
  Women Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Court Fines and Fees: Criminalizing Poverty in North Carolina by North Carolina Poverty Research Fund, January, 2018
  In recent decades, the North Carolina General Assembly has levied a costly array of fees on low income Tar Heels and their families, creating massive hardships for those caught in webs of criminal justice debt. See similar reports about:
  Economics of Incarceration Community Impact
• One War. Two Races. Bias Reigns in Florida's War on Drugs by Herald Tribune, January, 2018
  "Blacks represent 17 percent of Florida's population but have accounted for 46 percent of the state's felony drug convictions since 2004." See similar reports about:
  Race and ethnicity Drug Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Advancing Sensible Justice in Tennessee by Beacon Center of Tennessee, January, 2018
  More than 130,000 Tennesseans are behind bars or working through the criminal justice system. This report calls for a sharp change in the state's criminal justice system in order to reduce costs, increase public safety, and prevent recidivism. See similar reports about:
  General
• Raising the Bar: Reducing Conflicts of Interest and Increasing Transparency in District Attorney Campaign Fundraising by Columbia Law School Center for the Advancement of Public Integrity, January, 2018
  This reports provides recommendations on fundraising policies and procedures that are designed to address conflicts of interest and unconscious bias, that may arise when campaign contributors also have business with a district attorney's office. See similar reports about:
  Community Impact
• Estimating the Effects of Law Enforcement and Public Health Interventions Intended to Reduce Gun Violence in Baltimore by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, January, 2018
  "Although surges in arrests for illegal drug distribution may have a very short- term (1-2 months) violence-reducing e ect in an area, there appear to be violence-generating e ects up to a year after these drug arrest surges." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Police and Policing
• Too big to succeed: The impact of the growth of community corrections and what should be done about it by Columbia University Justice Lab, January, 2018
  This report discusses the consequences of the tremendous growth in probation and parole supervision in the United States over the past several decades, and argues that the number of people under supervision needs to be cut in half. See similar reports about:
  Probation and parole
• Less is More in New York: An Examination of the Impact of State Parole Violations on Prison and Jail Populations by Columbia University Justice Lab, January, 2018
  This research brief examines the decline in the number of people in New York's state prisons and local jails, including Rikers Island, and the simultaneous rise in the number of people incarcerated for state parole violations. See similar reports about:
  Probation and parole Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Jails
• Civil Asset Forfeiture: Forfeiting Your Rights by Southern Poverty Law Center, January, 2018
  This report finds that civil asset forfeiture snares mostly low-level offenders and many individuals who are never charged with a crime in the first place into an unequal system that undercuts due process and property rights. See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Economics of Incarceration Police and Policing Poverty and wealth Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Crime in 2017: Updated Analysis by Brennan Center for Justice, December, 2017
  This report finds that murder rates in major American cities are estimated to decline slightly through the end of 2017. See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Pretrial Detention Reform: Recommendations to the Chief Justice by Judicial Branch of California Pretrial Detention Reform Workgroup, October, 2017
  California's pretrial detention system unnecessarily compromises victim & public safety because it bases a person's liberty on financial resources, not their likelihood of future criminal behavior, exacerbating socioeconomic disparities & racial bias. See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Jails
• Forensic Patients in State Psychiatric Hospitals: 1999-2016 by National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, September, 2017
  "The results from this study indicate that, over a little less than two decades, states have seen an increase in the number of forensic patients who are present in their state hospitals." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Disability Health impact Mental Health
• The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges by Will Dobbie, Jacob Goldin, and Crystal S. Yang, September, 2017
  Pre-trial detention significantly increases the probability of conviction, primarily through increases in guilty pleas. Pre-trial detention has no net effect on future crime, but decreases employment & the receipt of certain government benefits. See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Jails
• Designed to Fail: The President's Deference to the Department of Justice in Advancing Criminal Justice Reform by Rachel E. Barkow and Mark Osler, June, 2017
  "This Article offers institutional changes that would help future presidents make the system less punitive and reduce prison populations." See similar reports about:
  General Sentencing Policy and Practices
• A Texas Sized Failure: Sexual Assaults in Texas Prisons by Prison Justice League & the Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, November, 2016
  "Regardless of claims that PREA standards are being implemented in Texas prisons, reports from prisoners themselves indicate that sexual assaults in Texas correctional facilities remain a serious problem." See similar reports about:
  Conditions of Confinement Sexual offenses
• Police Employment, Officers Per Capita Rates for U.S. Cities by Governing, October, 2016
  "In 2016, police departments serving cities with populations exceeding 25,000 employed an average of 16.8 officers and 21.4 total personnel for every 10,000 residents." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing
• Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Local Crime by Bondurant, Samuel R.; Lindo, Jason M.; and Swensen, Isaac D., September, 2016
  This report finds that substance-abuse-treatment facilities reduce both violent and financially motivated crimes in an area, and that the effects are particularly pronounced for relatively serious crimes. See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Drug Policy
• Access to Health Care and Criminal Behavior: Short-Run Evidence from the ACA Medicaid by Jacob Vogler, 2015
  This research article indicates that state Medicaid expansions have resulted in significant decreases in annual crime by 3.2 percent. See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Drug Policy Economics of Incarceration
• Breaking Down Barriers Experiments into Policies That Might Incentivize Employers to Hire Ex-Offenders by RAND Corporation, 2015
  This report argues that employers would be more likely to consider hiring ex-offenders if hiring agencies provided replacement workers, if ex-offenders provided proof of positive work performance histories, and if increased tax credits were available. See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Paroling people who committed serious crimes: What is the actual risk? by Citizens Alliance on Prisons & Public Spending, December, 2014
  People who commit homicides or sex offenses have extremely low re-offense rates. This report argues that parole decisions should take into account this reality & aim to better repare people for release, not incarcerate them needlessly. See similar reports about:
  Probation and parole Crime and Crime Rates Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Recidivism and Reentry Sentencing Policy and Practices
• When "life" did not mean life: A Historical Analysis of Life Sentences Imposed in Michigan Since 1900 by Citizens Alliance on Prisons & Public Spending, September, 2006
  Life sentences in Michigan did not always mean "no release." This report finds that parolable lifers' chances of being released from prison in Michigan have dropped dramatically since the 1960's. See similar reports about:
  Probation and parole Sentencing Policy and Practices