We've added 14 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• New Orleans: Who's in Jail and Why? by Vera Institute of Justice, August, 2016
  "This report aims to advance an important public conversation about how we are using our jail and how it impacts safety in our city." See similar reports about:
  Jails Community Impact
• Crime Survivors Speak: The First-Ever National Survey of Victims' Views on Safety and Justice by Alliance for Safety and Justice, August, 2016
  "Perhaps to the surprise of some, victims overwhelmingly prefer criminal justice approaches that prioritize rehabilitation over punishment and strongly prefer investments in crime prevention and treatment to more spending on prisons and jails." See similar reports about:
  Public Opinion
• Police Body Worn Cameras: A Policy Scorecard by The Leadership Conference, Upturn, August, 2015
  "This scorecard evaluates the body-worn camera policies currently in place in major police departments across the country." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Indefensible: A Decade of Mass Incarceration of Migrants Prosecuted for Crossing the Border by Grassroots Leadership, Justice Strategies, July, 2016
  "The criminal prosecution of migrants crossing our southern border has had profound impacts on the federal courts and federal prisons over the last decade." See similar reports about:
  Immigration Detainees
• Making Hard Time Harder: Programmatic Accommodations for Inmates with Disabilities Under the Americans with Disabilities Act by AVID Prison Project, July, 2016
  "This report...aims to highlight the difficulties that inmates with disabilities face as they seek to access programs and services in state prison systems." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Civil Rights
• Making the Grade: Developing Quality Postsecondary Education Programs in Prison by Vera Institute of Justice, July, 2016
  "[T]his report compiles lessons from the field, offering implementation guidance to programs seeking to develop, expand, or enhance postsecondary educational programming in corrections settings." See similar reports about:
  Education Prison Programs
• Disabled Behind Bars: The Mass Incarceration of People With Disabilities in America's Jails and Prisons by Center for American Progress, July, 2016
  "This report highlights steps policymakers can take to combat inappropriate and unjust incarceration and criminalization of people with disabilities, as well as steps to ensure appropriate and humane treatment of people with disabilities[.]" See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Prisoner Welfare
• The Science of Justice: Race, Arrests, and Police Use of Force by Center for Policing Equity, July, 2016
  "[T]he analyses of 12 law enforcement departments from geographically and demographically diverse locations revealed that racial disparities in police use of force persist even when controlling for racial distribution of local arrest rates." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Is Justice Really Blind? Race and Reversal in US Courts by Journal of Legal Studies, July, 2016
  "[B]lack federal judges are consistently overturned on appeal more often than similar white judges." See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights
• Report to the Congress: Career Offender Sentencing Enhancements by United States Sentencing Commission, August, 2016
  "The career offender directive should be amended to differentiate between career offenders with different types of criminal records, and is best focused on those offenders who have committed at least one 'crime of violence.'" See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Sentencing Policy
• National Survey of Prison Health Care: Selected Findings by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, July, 2016
  "This report presents selected findings on the provision of health care services in U.S. state prisons." See similar reports about:
  Data Collection Mental Health Prisoner Welfare
• Global burden of HIV, viral hepatitis, and tuberculosis in prisoners and detainees by National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, July, 2016
  "The most effective way of controlling these infections in prisoners and the broader community is to reduce the incarceration of people who inject drugs." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Drug Policy
• Justifiable Homicides by Law Enforcement Officers: What is the Role of Mental Illness? by Treatment Advocacy Center, National Sheriff's Association, September, 2013
  "The transfer of responsibility for persons with mental illness from mental health professionals to law enforcement officers has brought with it major problems for the latter." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Mental Health
• Individuals With Serious Mental Illnesses in County Jails: A Survey of Jail Staff's Perspectives by Public Citizen's Health Research Group, The Treatment Advocacy Center, July, 2016
  "The purpose of our survey was to understand the perspectives of county jail sheriffs, deputies, and other staff with respect to individuals with serious mental illnesses in jails." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Jails