We've added 26 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights; Forward Together; Research Action Design, September, 2015
  "Forty-eight percent of families in our survey overall were unable to afford the costs associated with a conviction, while among poor families (making less than $15,000 per year), 58% were unable to afford these costs." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Community Impact Families
• Time-In-Cell: The ASCA-Liman 2014 National Survey of Administrative Segregation in Prison by The Liman Program, Yale Law School, August, 2015
  "If that number is illustrative of the whole, some 80,000 to 100,000 people were, in 2014, in segregation." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• A Decade of Bail Research in New York City by New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., August, 2012
  "Defendants who are detained pretrial are more likely to be convicted, if convicted they are more likely to be sentenced to incarceration, and if incarcerated, their sentences are likely to be longer." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention
• From Fingerpaint to Fingerprints: The School-to-Prison Pipeline in Utah by The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, 2014
  "There were 1,230 disciplinary actions in 2011-12, the most recent school year for which data is available." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Education
• Disparities in Discipline: A Look at School Disciplinary Actions for Utah's American Indian Students by The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, 2014
  (In Utah, American Indian students are almost four times (3.8) more likely to receive a school disciplinary action compared to their white counterparts.) See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Education
• Juvenile Prisons: National consensus and alternatives by Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, August, 2015
  "Over a 12-month period, OCA found at least 532 physical restraints and 134 uses of mechanical restraints at these facilities." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Sexual Victimization In Prisons And Jails Reported By Inmates, 2011-12- Update by Bureau of Justice Statistics, December, 2014
  "In 2011-12, an estimated 4.0% of state and federal prison inmates and 3.2% of jail inmates reported experiencing one or more incidents of sexual victimization by another inmate or facility staff in the past 12 months or since admission to the facility." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Arrest-Related Deaths Program: Data Quality Profile by Bureau of Justice Statistics, March, 2015
  "Data from the ARD represent a national accounting of persons who have died during the process of arrest, including homicides by law enforcement personnel and deaths attributed to suicide, intoxication, accidental injury, and natural causes." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Data Collection
• Local Police Departments, 2013: Personnel, Policies, And Practices by Bureau of Justice Statistics, May, 2015
  "About 27% of local police officers were members of a racial or ethnic minority, compared to 15% in 1987. „„" See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• The APPD Randomized Controlled Trial in Low Risk Supervision: The Effect of Low Risk Supervision on Rearrest by First Judicial Court of Pennsylvania, October, 2008
  "There was no difference in either the rate of any arrest or an arrest for a serious offense between low risk offenders supervised in large caseloads and low risk offenders supervised in standard caseloads." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice Disposition Matrix: A Validation Study by Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, February, 2014
  "The recidivism rate of low risk to re-offend youth placed outside of the Disposition Matrix suggestions is 114% higher than the rate for low risk youth placed within the suggestions." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Recidivism and Reentry
• Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission: 2014 Annual Report by Virginia Criminal Sentencing Commission, December, 2014
  "During FY2014, judges continued to agree with the sentencing guidelines recommendations in approximately 78% of the cases." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy
• Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative: 2013 Annual Results Report Inter-Site Conference Summary by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2014
  "In the aggregate, sites reduced the number of youth detained on an average day by nearly 3,600 compared with pre-JDAI levels, a reduction of 44 percent." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Recidivism of Adult Sexual Offenders by Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking, July, 2015
  "The researchers found a sexual recidivism rate of 5.3 percent for the entire sample of sex offenders, based on an arrest during the 3-year followup period." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Blackstrikes: A Study of the Racially Disparate Use of Preemptory Challenges by the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office by Reprieve Australia, August, 2015
  "In short, over the course of a ten year period, Caddo parish prosecutors exercised peremptory challenges against black prospective jurors at more than three times the rate at which they exercised peremptory challenges against white prospective jurors." See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights
• A Stubborn Legacy: The Overwhelming Importance of Race in Jury Selection in 173 Post-Batson North Carolina Capital Trials by Michigan State University College of Law, 2012
  "Over the twenty-year period we examined, prosecutors struck eligible black venire members at about 2.5 times the rate they struck eligible venire members who were not black." See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights Death Penalty
• Mass Probation: Toward a More Robust Theory of State Variation in Punishment by University of Minnesota, July, 2014
  "As a consequence, imprisonment rates became less reflective of states' overall supervision rates." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Unlocking Potential: Results of a National Survey of Postsecondary Education in State Prisons by Institute for Higher Education Policy, May, 2011
  "Approximately 71,000 persons (roughly 6 percent of the total incarcerated population in responding states) are enrolled in vocational or academic postsecondary education programs in prisons for the 2009-10 academic year." See similar reports about:
  Education
• Louisiana's Debtors Prisons: An Appeal to Justice by ACLU of Louisiana, August, 2015
  "The ACLU of Louisiana ("ACLU") investigated the imposition and collection of fines, fees and court costs or other legal financial obligations (LFOs) in twelve parishes and two cities from across Louisiana." See similar reports about:
  Jails Prison and The Economy
• Disproportionate Impact of K-12 School Suspension and Expulsion on Black Students in Southern States by University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, August, 2015
  "In 132 Southern school districts, Blacks were disproportionately suspended at rates five times or higher than their representation in the student population." See similar reports about:
  Education Civil Rights
• Breaking Schools' Rules: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students' Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, July, 2011
  "Nearly six in ten public school students studied were suspended or expelled at least once between their seventh- and twelfth-grade school years." See similar reports about:
  Education Civil Rights Juveniles
• Realignment and Crime in 2014: California's Violent Crime in Decline by Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, August, 2015
  "Contrary to alarms raised about potential increases in crime, consistent reports examining offenses at the county level over time show Realignment and crime do not have a causal relationship." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Jails
• Federal Drug Sentencing Laws Bring High Cost, Low Return: Penalty increases enacted in 1980s and 1990s have not reduced drug use or recidivism by Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project, August, 2015
  "From 1980 to 2011 (the latest year for which comparable statistics are available), the average prison sentence imposed on drug offenders increased 36 percent." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Recidivism and Reentry
• Overview of Federal Criminal Cases Fiscal Year 2014 by United States Sentencing Commission, August, 2015
  "Cases involving drugs, immigration, firearms, or fraud accounted for 81.5 percent of all cases reported to the Commission." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Criminal Victimization, 2014 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, August, 2015
  "No significant change occurred in the rate of violent crime from 2013 (23.2 victimizations per 1,000) to 2014 (20.1 per 1,000)." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Violent Death in Delinquent Youth After Detention by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, September, 2015
  "The vast majority of deaths among delinquent youth were homicides from gunshot wounds." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles