We've added 10 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Pretrial Justice: How Much Does It Cost by Pretrial Justice Institute, January, 2017
  "The evidence shows that current pretrial practices--especially those that use money bail and over-use jail beds for lower risk people--are needlessly expensive and doesn't produce positive results." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Community Impact Jails
• Shackled to Debt: Criminal Justice Financial Obligations and the Barriers to Re-entry They Create by Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice, January, 2017
  "[T]his form of sanction can, if left unchecked, have long-term effects that significantly harm the efforts of formerly incarcerated people to rehabilitate and reintegrate..." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Building Trust and Legitimacy Within Community Corrections by Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice, December, 2016
  "A shift from incarceration to community corrections could present numerous opportunities for reform of the criminal justice system as well as significant challenges." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Crime and Crime Rates Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Community-Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults by Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice, September, 2015
  "[T]oday's neurobiological and developmental research suggests that young people ages 18-24 are more developmentally akin to juveniles than fully mature adults." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Mental Health
• Delaying a Second Chance: The Declining Prospects for Parole on Life Sentences by The Sentencing Project, January, 2017
  "By placing upward pressure on prison sentences for people with less serious convictions, excessive prison terms for lifers have contributed to a major cause of mass incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Prisoner Welfare
• Mass incarceration and children's outcomes: Criminal Justice Policy is Education Policy by Economic Policy Institute, December, 2016
  "It is more common for children of incarcerated parents to drop out of school than it is for children of nonincarcerated parents, controlling for race, IQ, home quality, poverty status, and mother's education." See similar reports about:
  Education Community Impact
• Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. District Courts: Can Offenders' Educational Attainment Guard Against Prevalent Criminal Stereotypes? by Travis W. Franklin, Sam Houston State University, February, 2017
  "[C]ourt actors may be less concerned (or not at all concerned) with factors typically linked to perceptions of dangerousness (e.g., race, ethnicity, age, sex, detention status) when dealing with offenders of higher educational status." See similar reports about:
  Education Civil Rights Community Impact Sentencing Policy Trials
• Punishing Poverty: The high cost of probation fees in Massachusetts by Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2016
  "Despite evidence that many probationers come from the poorest areas of the state, and the court's ability to waive probation fees, the state manages to collect $20 million per year in fees." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Community Impact
• Reinstating Common Sense: How driver's license suspensions for drug offenses unrelated to driving are falling out of favor by Prison Policy Initiative, December, 2016
  "Our criminal justice system should not set people up to fail. Yet that is exactly what mandatory driver's license suspensions do: they introduce new legal, economic, and social barriers for people who are in the midst of reentry." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Civil Rights Community Impact
• Following the Money of Mass Incarceration by Prison Policy Initiative, January, 2017
  "In this first-of-its-kind report, we find that the system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Community Impact General