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

• Racial Disparities in Youth Commitments and Arrests by The Sentencing Project, April, 2016
  "As of 2013, black juveniles were more than four times as likely to be committed as white juveniles[.]" See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Civil Rights Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• A Shared Sentence: the devastating toll of parental incarceration on kids, families and communities by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, April, 2016
  "Nationally, the number of kids who have had a parent in jail or prison at some point in their childhood hovers around 5.1 million - a conservative estimate." See similar reports about:
  Families Community Impact
• Roadblocks to Reform: District Attorneys, Elections, and the Criminal Justice System Status Quo by ACLU of Oregon, April, 2016
  "DAs are arguably the most powerful people in the criminal justice system, but voters don't seem to know who DAs are or all that they do[.]" See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Jails
• How Has Proposition 47 Affected California's Jail Population by Public Policy Institute of California, March, 2016
  "Taken together, we find significant changes in the level and composition of those incarcerated in jails following the passage of Prop 47." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Jails
• Prosecutorial Oversight: A National Dialogue in the Wake of Connick v. Thompson by Innocence Project, March, 2016
  "There are almost no adequate systems in place to keep prosecutorial error and misconduct in check and, in fact, prosecutors are rarely held accountable even for intentional misconduct." See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights Sentencing Policy
• Paying the Price: Failure to Deliver HIV by Human Rights Watch, 2015
  "The state of Louisiana is 'ground zero' for the dual epidemics of HIV and incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Jails Prisoner Welfare
• Get To Work or Go To Jail: Workplace Rights Under Threat by UCLA Labor Center, April, 2016
  "The work-or-jail threat adds the weight of the criminal justice system to employers' power, and turns the lack of good jobs into the basis for further policing, prosecution, and incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Labor Families Prison and The Economy
• California Sentencing Institute Map by California Sentencing Institute, March, 2016
  "Explore the interactive map to view population-adjusted rates of adult and juvenile arrests and incarcerations." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Jails Juveniles Women
• Children, Parents, and Incarceration: Descriptive Overview of Data from Alameda and San Francisco County Jails by Alameda County Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership; San Francisco Children of Incarcerated Parents Partnership, March, 2016
  "The survey was structured to gather information to inform program and policy decisions in consideration of the children's well-being when their parents become incarcerated in local jails." See similar reports about:
  Families Community Impact Jails
• Stopped, Fined, Arrested: Racial Bias in Policing and Traffic Courts in California by Back on the Road California, April, 2016
  "[T]here are dramatic racial and socioeconomic disparities in driver's license suspensions and arrests related to unpaid traffic fines and fees." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Police and Policing Practices
• Assessing Inmate Cause of Death: Deaths in Custody Reporting Program and National Death Index by Bureau of Justice Statistics, April, 2016
  "The U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has collected data annually on inmates who died in state prison and local jail and the circumstances surrounding these deaths since...2000." See similar reports about:
  Data Collection Prisoner Welfare
• Crime in 2015: A Final Analysis by Brennan Center for Justice, April, 2016
  "The data analyzed in this update support the initial report's conclusion that Americans continue to experience low crime rates." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Data Collection
• Health Disparities in Drug- and Alcohol-Use Disorders: A 12-Year Longitudinal Study of Youths After Detention by American Journal of Public Health, December, 2015
  "Drug abuse appears to have greater consequences for racial/ethnic minorities, especially African Americans, than for non-Hispanic Whites." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Drug Policy Women
• Unlicensed & Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Records by National Employment Law Project, April, 2016
  "[H]aving a conviction record, particularly for people of color, is a major barrier to participation in the labor market." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Prison and The Economy
• San Francisco Justice Reinvestment Initiative: Racial and ethnic disparities analysis for the reentry council by The W. Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness & Equity, June, 2015
  "Black adults are 7.1 times as likely as White adults to be arrested, 11 times as likely to be booked into County Jail, and 10.3 times as likely to be convicted of a crime in San Francisco." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Civil Rights Jails Pretrial Detention
• Economic Perspectives on Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System by White House Council of Economic Advisers, April, 2016
  "[E]conomics can provide a valuable lens for evaluating the costs and benefits of criminal justice policy." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Community Impact Crime and Crime Rates