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

• Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration by Justice Policy Institute, December, 2014
  "Each year, the U.S. incurs an estimated $8-$21 billion in long-term costs for the confinement of young people." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Treatment Industrial Complex: How For-Profit Prison Corporations are Undermining Efforts to Treat and Rehabilitate Prisoners for Corporate Gain by American Friends Service Committee; Grassroots Leadership; Southern Center for Human Rights, November, 2014
  "Most for-profit prison corporations have dismal records in terms of safety, cost, and quality of the prisons that they manage." See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization Recidivism and Reentry
• One Strike and You're Out: How We Can Eliminate Barriers to Economic Security and Mobility for People with Criminal Records by Center for American Progress, December, 2014
  "Estimates put the cost of employment losses among people with criminal records at as much as $65 billion per year in terms of gross domestic product." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Prison and The Economy
• On Life Support: Public Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Vera Institute of Justice, November, 2014
  (Research in epidemiology indicates that had the U.S. incarceration rate remained at its 1973 level, then the infant mortality rate would have been 7.8% lower than it was in 2003, and disparity between black and white infant deaths nearly 15% lower.) See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Community Impact
• The Rise in State Prison Populations by Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, December, 2014
  "Most states' prison populations are at historic highs after decades of extraordinary growth. This growth has been costly, limiting economic opportunity for communities with especially high incarceration rates." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Prison and The Economy
• Still Buried Alive: Arizona Prisoner Testimonies on Isolation in Maximum-Security by American Friends Service Committee, December, 2014
  "The impacts on the men and women held in isolation are deeply damaging and long lasting. Yet Arizona has once again chosen to double down on solitary confinement with these 500 new maximum-security prison beds in the Lewis complex." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Standing with LGBT Prisoners: An Advocate's Guide to Ending Abuse and Combating Imprisonment by National Center for Transgender Equality, 2014
  "According to the National Transgender Discrimination Survey, 16% of transgender adults have been in a prison or jail for any reason." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Police and Policing Practices
• Justice Reinvestment in North Carolina: Three Years Later by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, November, 2014
  "A total of 10 prisons closed as a result and the state is using some of the savings generated to focus on improving supervision practices by adding 175 probation and parole officers and investing in cognitive interventions and substance use treatment." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Prison and The Economy
• Contra Costa County: A Model for Managing Local Corrections by JFA Institute, January, 2014
  "Over a three-year period, people on felony probation in the County had a recidivism rate of 20%— far lower than the 60% or higher rates statewide found in other studies." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Incorporating Racial Equity into Criminal Justice Reform by Sentencing Project, October, 2014
  "Reform strategies that do not directly tackle racial disparity ignore the multifaceted ways in which public safety is produced. Key among these is the perception of the criminal justice system by the community." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Public Ideology, Minority Threat, and Felony Collateral Sanctions: A State-Level Analysis by University of Delaware, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice, July, 2014
  "States with large minority and conservative populations are more likely to have more stigmatizing collateral sanction that can affect recidivism." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Ten Economic Facts about Crime and Incarceration in the United States by The Hamilton Project, May, 2014
  (The high incarceration rate can have profound effects on society; research has shown that incarceration may impede employment and marriage prospects, increase poverty and behavioral problems among children, and amplify the spread of communicable diseases.) See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Bridging the Divide: A new paradigm for addressing safety, crime, and victimization by Equal Justice USA, November, 2014
  "There is a growing movement to confront the false choice between meeting the needs of crime victims and reforming failed criminal justice and corrections policies." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact
• Law enforcement duties and sudden cardiac death among police officers in the United States: case distribution study by British Medical Journal, November, 2014
  "Stressful law enforcement duties are associated with a risk of sudden cardiac death that is markedly higher than the risk during routine/non-emergency duties." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Gun Possession among American Youth: A Discovery-Based Approach to Understand Gun Violence by PLOS ONE, November, 2014
  "We identified more than 40 behavioral factors, including heroin use, using snuff on school property, having been injured in a fight, and having been a victim of sexual violence, that have and continue to be strongly associated with gun possession." See similar reports about:
  Gun Control Juveniles
• Household Poverty and Nonfatal Violent Victimization, 2008-2012 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, November, 2014
  "For the period 2008-12, persons living in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000)." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Rape and Sexual Assault Victimization Among College-Age Females, 1995-2013 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, December, 2014
  "The rate of rape and sexual assault was 1.2 times higher for nonstudents (7.6 per 1,000) than for students (6.1 per 1,000)." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Hate Crime Statistics, 2013 by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2014
  (Some 5,928 hate crime incidents involving 6,933 offenses were reported by law-enforcement agencies last year.) See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Crime in the United States 2012 by Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2012
  "In 2012, an estimated 1,214,462 violent crimes occurred nationwide, an increase of 0.7 percent from the 2011 estimate." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates