We've added 13 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Separation by Bars and Miles: Visitation in state prisons by Prison Policy Initiative, October, 2015
  "Less than a third of people in state prisons receive a visit from a loved one in a typical month." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Families
• How to reduce the federal prison population by Urban Institute, October, 2015
  "Substantial reductions to the BOP population can be achieved by reforming sentencing law and policy for drug trafficking." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Coming Out of Concrete Closets: A report on Black & Pink's National LGBTQ Prisoners Survey by Black & Pink, October, 2015
  "Close to two thirds (58%) of respondents' first arrest occurred when they were under the age of 18." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Locked In: Interactions with the Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Systems for LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Who Engage in Survival Sex by Urban Institute, September, 2015
  "Interviews with these youth reveal that over 70 percent had been arrested at least once, with many reporting frequent arrest for "quality-of-life" and misdemeanor crimes other than prostitution offenses." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Detention of Alleged Probation and Parole Violators in Orleans Parish Prison by Vera Institute of Justice, October, 2015
  "Close to one in five people detained in the New Orleans jail are waiting for a court date to sort out alleged violations of their probation or parole." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Gender Injustice: System-Level Juvenile Justice Reforms for Girls by The National Crittenton Foundation; National Women's Law Center, September, 2015
  "Despite decades of attention, the proportion of girls in the juvenile justice system has increased and their challenges have remained remarkably consistent, resulting in deeply rooted systemic gender injustice." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Women
• Does Prison Crowding Predict Higher Rates of Substance Use Related Parole Violations? A Recurrent Events Multi-Level Survival Analysis by PLoS ONE, October, 2015
  "Prison crowding predicted higher rates of parole violations after release from prison. The effect was magnitude-dependent and particularly strong for drug charges." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Prisoner Welfare
• Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850-1984 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, December, 1986
  "This work presents summary tables and commentary for published national government reports on corrections statistics for the period of U.S. history from 1850 (the date of the first national reports on the topic) to 1984." See similar reports about:
  Data Collection Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Drug Offenders In Federal Prisons: Estimates Of Characteristics Based on Linked Data by Bureau of Justice Statistics; Urban Institute, October, 2015
  "Almost all (99.5%) drug offenders in federal prison were serving sentences for drug trafficking." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Close To Home: Building on Family Support for People Leaving Jail by Vera Institute of Justice, October, 2011
  "Among incarcerated people, 84 percent reported that their family members continued to be supportive." See similar reports about:
  Families Jails Recidivism and Reentry
• Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children? by Child Trends, October, 2015
  "Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five million U.S. children have had at least one parent in prison at one time or another." See similar reports about:
  Families
• Punishment Without End by John Jay College of Criminal Justice Research & Evaluation Center, July, 2014
  "By year five, the probability of arrest for 16 year olds arrested for burglary was equal to that of 16 year olds not arrested for burglary." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Crime and Crime Rates
• Quick Facts: Federal Offenders in Prison by United States Sentencing Commission, January, 2015
  "Half of all offenders (50.0%) in the federal prison population were sentenced to more than ten years in prison, while 4.9% were sentenced to 30 years or longer, and 2.5% were sentenced to life in prison." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes