We've added 19 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Interim Report of The President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing by President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, March, 2015
  "The President should support and provide funding for the creation of a National Crime and Justice Task Force to review and evaluate all components of the criminal justice system." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Federal Bureau of Prisons: Special Housing Unit Review and Assessment by CNA, December, 2014
  "As of November 2013, approximately 5 percent of the entire Bureau's prisoner population was being housed in one of these restrictive housing populations with the vast majority in the SHU status." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Mental Health
• Sex Offender Registries: Fear without Function? by University of Chicago, February, 2011
  "The results from all three data sets do not support the hypothesis that sex offender registries are effective tools for increasing public safety." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Recidivism and Reentry
• Reducing Harms to Boys and Young Men of Color from Criminal Justice System Involvement by Urban Institute, February, 2015
  "A natural extension of this work would be to make explicit consideration of the racial impact of proposed policies, as in racial impact statements, into routine tools." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Juveniles
• Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department by Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, March, 2015
  "This investigation has revealed a pattern or practice of unlawful conduct within the Ferguson Police Department that violates the First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, and federal statutory law." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Police and Policing Practices
• A Changing Landscape: Pennsylvania Counties Reevaluate Policies on Immigration Detainers by Sheller Center for Social Justice at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, March, 2015
  (Pennsylvania counties are moving away from honoring ICE detainers; a number of counties cited that these changes were undertaken in order to comply with the Third Circuit Court of Appeals' decision in Galarza to avoid the possibility of legal liability.) See similar reports about:
  Immigration Detainees
• New York City Department of Investigation Report on the Recruiting and Hiring Process for New York City Correction Officers by City of New York Department of Investigation, January, 2015
  "DOI has now reviewed over 150 applications of recently hired COs. Of these, 54 had significant red flags that should have either precluded their hiring altogether or at least required significant follow up or monitoring." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Public Safety - Municipal Courts by Better Together, October, 2014
  "This means that the municipal courts in the St. Louis region accounted for 46% of all fines and fees collected statewide, despite being home to only 22% of Missourians." See similar reports about:
  Trials Community Impact
• Risk Tells Us Who, But Not What or How: Empirical Assessment of the Complexity of Criminogenic Need to Inform Correctional Programming by Criminology & Public Policy, February, 2015
  "The emphasis that is placed on managing offenders based on static risk or a global risk-need score that is primarily driven by static risk detracts attention from the specific criminogenic needs that should be identified." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Drivers of Growth in the Federal Prison Population by Urban Institute, March, 2015
  "The biggest driver of growth in the prison population is in federally sentenced drug offenders, almost all of whom were convicted of drug trafficking." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• 2014 Annual Report by Denver Office of the Independent Monitor, March, 2015
  "In particular, the police uses of force within District 6 during the pilot project were frequently not recorded by body worn cameras." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• No Escape: Exposure to Toxic Coal Waste at State Correctional Institution Fayette by Abolitionist Law Center, September, 2014
  "More than 81% of responding prisoners (61/75) reported respiratory, throat, and sinus conditions." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism? by Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, June, 2008
  "Visitation of many types, including both family and friends, was associated with reduced and delayed onset of recidivism, with spousal visitation producing a more pronounced reduction in recidivism." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Families
• Detrimental for Some? Heterogeneous Effects of Maternal Incarceration on Child Wellbeing by Criminology & Public Policy, January, 2015
  "Maternal incarceration is deleterious for children of mothers least likely to experience incarceration but mostly inconsequential for children of mothers more likely to experience incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Families
• Trial Defense Guidelines: Representing a Child Client Facing a Possible Life Sentence by Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth, March, 2015
  "The objective of these guidelines is to set forth a national standard of practice to ensure zealous, constitutionally effective representation for all juveniles facing a possible life sentence." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Trials
• Staying Connected: Keeping Justice-Involved Youth "Close to Home" in New York City by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research and Evaluation Center, March, 2015
  "After the beginning of Close to Home, the situation was reversed. Arrests in New York City fell more (-39%) than in other areas of the State (-24%)." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• 2014 WI Prison End-of-Year Population Snapshot on 12/31/2014 by Wisconsin Department of Corrections, March, 2015
  (The overall population increased 8.9% from 2000 to 2014.) See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Corrections Infrastructure Spending in California by Public Policy Institute of California, March, 2015
  "At the end of 2005, CDCR operated 33 prisons with a statewide design capacity of more than 80,000 beds." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Effects of Policies Designed to Keep Firearms from High-Risk Individuals by Annual Review of Public Health, March, 2015
  "Some prohibitions for high-risk individuals (e.g., those under domestic violence restraining orders, violent misdemeanants) and procedures for checking for more types of prohibiting conditions are associated with lower rates of violence." See similar reports about:
  Gun Control