We've added 16 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Failed Policies, Forfeited Futures: A Nationwide Scorecard on Juvenile Records by Juvenile Law Center, November, 2014
  "A study of each state's policies on keeping juvenile records confidential and allowing for those records to be expunged shows that the nation limits opportunities for youth by failing to protect them from the harmful effects of their juvenile records." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Oregon Corrections Population Forecast by State of Oregon Office of Economic Analysis, October, 2014
  "The number of inmates housed in Oregon's prisons, currently 14,598, is expected to grow to 15,074 inmates by September 2024." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Bias Behind Bars: Decreasing Disproportionate Rates of Incarcerated Women in California and Nationwide for Low-Level Offenses by The Women's Foundation of California, October, 2014
  "Nationally — but especially in California — women have been incarcerated for nonviolent, poverty-related offenses at disproportionate rates compared to men." See similar reports about:
  Women Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Study of Victim Experiences of Wrongful Conviction by ICF International, November, 2013
  "A number of victims described the impact of the wrongful conviction as being comparable to, or worse than, their original victimization." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Crime and Crime Rates
• Iowa Prison Population Forecast FY 2014-FY 2024 by Iowa Department of Human Rights Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning, October, 2014
  (If current offender behaviors and justice system trends, policies, and practices continue, Iowa's prison population may be expected to increase by about 39 percent over the ten-year period.) See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Evaluation of the Allegheny County Jail Collaborative Reentry Programs Findings and Recommendations by Urban Institute, October, 2014
  (Impact analyses suggest that both Reentry1 and Reentry2 reduce rearrest among participants and prolong time to rearrest, particularly after the first 90 days, indicating that initial and continued program efforts to stabilize clients are effective.) See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• The Justice Reinvestment Initiative Experiences from the Local Sites by Urban Institute, November, 2014
  "Seven sites adopted strategies that expanded jail diversion (e.g., deferred prosecution programs) and jail programming (e.g., inmate transition programs) as well as increased access to employment and education services." See similar reports about:
  Jails Recidivism and Reentry
• The Use of Prolonged Solitary Confinement in United States Prisons, Jails, and Detention Centers by Center for Constitutional Rights; Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; California Prison Focus, November, 2014
  "The US currently detains approximately 80,000 prisoners in solitary confinement in its jails, prisons, and detention centers." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• United States' Compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment by American Civil Liberties Union, October, 2014
  "The ACLU report also highlights key aspects of the criminal justice system that do not comply with article 16 of the Convention, which requires the prevention of acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Profiting from Probation: America's "Offender-Funded" Probation Industry by Human Rights Watch, February, 2014
  "The central problem with offender-funded, pay only probation is this: the longer it takes offenders to pay off their debts, the longer they remain on probation and the more they pay in supervision fees." See similar reports about:
  Jails Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Solitary Confinement as Torture by University of North Carolina School of Law Immigration/Human Rights Clinic, 2014
  (The conclusion reached is stark and straightforward: solitary confinement is ineffective at decreasing violence within prisons; it is ineffective at preserving public safety; it is ineffective at managing scarce monetary resources.) See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Crimes Against the Elderly, 2003-2013 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, November, 2014
  (For the period 2003-13, elderly persons age 65 or older experienced nonfatal violent crime victimizations at lower rates than younger persons ages 12 to 24, 25 to 49, and 50 to 64.) See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Most States Cut Imprisonment and Crime by Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project, November, 2014
  "Over the past five years, the majority of states have reduced their imprisonment rates while experiencing less crime." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• States Project 3 Percent Increase in Prisoners by 2018 by Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project, November, 2014
  "The number of state prison inmates is expected to rise 3 percent by 2018, according to projections collected from 34 states by the Pew Charitable Trusts." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Report of Inquiry into Documentation of Sex Crime Investigations by Five Detectives in the Special Victims Section of the New Orleans Police Department by Office of Inspector General City of New Orleans, November, 2014
  "Due to this total void of information, the investigators could not analyze 65% of the sex crime related calls for service assigned to the five detectives." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• The Impact of Right to Carry Laws and the NRC Report: The Latest Lessons for the Empirical Evaluation of Law and Policy by Stanford Law School, September, 2014
  "The strongest evidence of a statistically significant effect would be for aggravated assault, with 11 of 28 estimates suggesting that RTC laws increase this crime at the .10 confidence level." See similar reports about:
  Gun Control Crime and Crime Rates