We've added 34 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Language from police body camera footage shows racial disparities in officer respect by Stanford University, June, 2017
  "Officers speak with consistently less respect toward black versus white community members, even after controlling for the race of the officer, the severity of the infraction, the location of the stop, and the outcome of the stop." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Civil Rights Community Impact
• Out of Sight: The Growth of Jails in Rural America by Vera Institute of Justice, June, 2017
  "America's 3,283 local jails are the "front door" to mass incarceration, but for too long have grown outside of public view. Our latest analysis reveals an unexpected finding: there has been a dramatic shift in the geography of incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Jails Community Impact Pretrial Detention
• Back to Business: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Benefits Your Company by The Trone Private Sector and Education Advisory Council to the American Civil Liberties Union, June, 2017
  "Research by economists confirms that hiring people with records is simply smart business. Researchers have found that "employees with a criminal background are in fact a better pool for employers."" See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Prison and The Economy
• America's Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration by Earth Island Journal and Truthout, June, 2017
  "The toxic impact of prisons extends far beyond any individual prison, or any specific region in the United States. Mass incarceration in the US impacts the health of prisoners, prison-adjacent communities, and local ecosystems from coast to coast." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Prisoner Welfare
• Federal Prisons at a Crossroads by The Sentencing Project, June, 2017
  "The number of people incarcerated in federal prisons has declined substantially in recent years. But recently enacted policy changes at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and certain Congressional proposals appear poised to reverse this progress." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Drug Policy
• Sense of self and responsibility: a review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships - Part V by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, June, 2017
  "This report profiles interventions which encourage imprisoned people to develop a positive sense of self and a sense of responsibility for their own lives and towards others." See similar reports about:
  Prison Programs Community Impact Prisoner Welfare Recidivism and Reentry
• Peer relations: Review of learning from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Prison Reform Fellowships - Part IV by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London, June, 2017
  (This briefing examines the importance of positive peer relations for promoting desistance and providing moral and practical support to people in prison and on release.) See similar reports about:
  Prison Programs Community Impact Recidivism and Reentry
• Indicators of Mental Health Problems Reported by Prisoners & Jail Inmates: 2011-12 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, June, 2017
  "About 1 in 7 state and federal prisoners (14%) and 1 in 4 jail inmates (26%) reported experiences that met the threshold for serious psychological distress (SPD) in the 30 days prior to a survey that was conducted between February 2011 and May 2012." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Jails
• Hate Crime Victimization, 2004-2015 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, June, 2017
  "In 2015, the rate of violent hate crime victimization was 0.7 hate crimes per 1,000 persons age 12 or older." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Crime and Crime Rates
• Drug Use, Dependence, and Abuse Among State Prisoners and Jail Inmates 2007-2009 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, June, 2017
  "More than half of state prisoners and two-thirds of sentenced jail inmates meet the criteria for drug dependence or abuse." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Jails Prisoner Welfare
• Criminal Background Checks and Access to Jobs: A Case Study of Washington, DC by Urban Institute, June, 2017
  "Examining local regulations and DC's labor market reveals that justice-involved people - whether formerly incarcerated or not - face significant challenges finding work in in the city." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Community Impact
• The Lack of a Relationship between Drug Imprisonment and Drug Problems by The Pew Charitable Trusts, June, 2017
  "There is no statistically significant relationship between state drug offender imprisonment rates and three measures of state drug problems: rates of illicit drug use, drug overdose deaths, and drug arrests." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Sentencing Policy
• Trends in U.S. Corrections by The Sentencing Project, June, 2017
  "This fact sheet, updated June 2017, provides a compilation of key developments in the criminal justice system over the past several decades" See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Public Opinion on Criminal Justice Reform in Massachusetts by MassInc, June, 2017
  (A new MassINC poll shows most people support reforms to both the front and back ends of the system to reduce repeat offending and refocus the system on prevention and rehabilitation.) See similar reports about:
  Public Opinion
• Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls' Childhood by Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, June, 2017
  (Adults view black girls as less innocent and more adult-like than their white peers, especially in the age range of 5-14) See similar reports about:
  Women Education Juveniles
• Leading with Conviction: The Transformative Role of Formerly Incarcerated Leaders in Reducing Mass Incarceration by Columbia Law School, May, 2017
  "This report documents the roles of 48 formerly incarcerated leaders engaged in work related to reducing incarceration and rebuilding communities." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Recidivism and Reentry
• Bail Reform in California by UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, May, 2017
  (This report examines California's system of commercial surety bail, recommending that it be replaced with risk assessment tools and non-bail release to improve predictive accuracy, race neutrality, and other outcomes such as fiscal impact.) See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Community Impact Jails
• The Devil in the Details: Bail Bond Contracts in California by UCLA School of Law, May, 2017
  "After analyzing the fine print in more than 100 contract documents online corresponding to 10 sureties, we identified 20 problems with bail bond contracts that violate common notions of fairness and justice." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Community Impact Jails
• Examining Racial Disparities in Criminal Case Outcomes among Indigent Defendants in San Francisco by The Quattrone Center & The University of Pennsylvania Law School, May, 2017
  "Our analysis revealed that Black, White and Latinx indigent defendants in San Francisco have substantially different experiences during the criminal adjudication process." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Jails Pretrial Detention
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2016 by National Center for Education Statistics, May, 2017
  (This annual report, a joint effort by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and the National Center for Education Statistics, presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals.) See similar reports about:
  Education
• U.S. Prison Population Trends 1999-2015: Modest Reductions with Significant Variation by The Sentencing Project, May, 2017
  (While the majority of states have at least modestly reduced their prison populations in recent years, 16 states have achieved double-digit rates of decline and the federal system has downsized at almost twice the national rate.) See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Hidden Consequences: The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Dependent Children by National Institute of Justice, May, 2017
  "This article summarizes the range of risk factors facing children of incarcerated parents. It also cautions against universal policy solutions that seek to address these risk factors but do not take into account the child's unique needs." See similar reports about:
  Families Community Impact
• A Federal Agenda to Reduce Mass Incarceration by Brennan Center for Justice, May, 2017
  "Federal funding drives state policy, and helped create our current crisis of mass incarceration. And the federal government sets the national tone, which is critical to increasing public support and national momentum for change." See similar reports about:
  General Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Racism & Felony Disenfranchisement: An Intertwined History by Brennan Center for Justice, May, 2017
  "One in every 13 voting-age African Americans cannot vote, a disenfranchisement rate more than four times greater than that of all other Americans." See similar reports about:
  Felon Disenfranchisement Civil Rights Community Impact
• Supervision in the Community: Probation and Parole by Michelle S. Phelps and Caitlin Curry, University of Minnesota, April, 2017
  "In the United States, the number of adults on probation and parole supervision increased from one million in 1980 to a peak of nearly 5.1 million in 2007, more than double the number of inmates in local, state, and federal jails and prisons." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Recidivism and Reentry
• Raise the Age: 17-Year-Olds in the Criminal Justice System by Texas Appleseed, April, 2017
  "Texas is one of only seven states in which 17-year olds accused of committing crimes are automatically shuffled into the adult criminal justice system rather than the juvenile justice system, regardless of the crime." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Federal Justice Statistics, 2013-2014 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, March, 2017
  "At fiscal yearend 2014, about 400,000 offenders were under some form of federal correctional control." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Unlocking solitary confinement: Ending Extreme Isolation in Nevada State Prisons by The ACLU of Nevada, Solitary Watch, Nevada Disability Advocacy & Law Center, February, 2017
  "In this report, we found that solitary confinement is, in fact, widely used in the state of Nevada, often for prolonged periods of time, and that many of the people held there are denied basic human needs like daily exercise and sufficient medical care." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Prison Procedures
• Individuals With Serious Mental Illnesses in County Jails: A Survey of Jail Staff's Perspectives by Public Citizen's Health Research Group and The Treatment Advocacy Center, July, 2016
  (This report uses data from 230 sheriff's departments in 39 states to examine how correctional staffs understand and deal with inmates struggling with serious mental illnesses.) See similar reports about:
  Jails Prisoner Welfare
• Forfeiting the American Dream: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Exacerbates Hardship for Low-income Communities and Communities of Color by Center for American Progress, April, 2016
  "The abuse of civil asset forfeiture falls hardest on those who are least able to weather the economic shock of losing a home, car, or financial resources - namely, low-income individuals and people of color." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Community Impact
• Geographic Variation in the Cumulative Risk of Imprisonment and Parental Imprisonment in the United States by University of California & Cornell University, 2016
  (This article reports estimates of the cumulative risk of imprisonment and parental imprisonment for demographic groups in four regions and four states. Findings indicate that there is substantial racial inequality in levels of risk.) See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Pretrial Release in California by Public Policy Institute of California, May, 2015
  "This report uses newly available data to provide information about pretrial release in California and to give policymakers a better understanding of the defendants who tend to be released and the form of release they secure." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Community Impact Jails
• Militarization and police violence: The case of the 1033 program by Casey Delehanty, Gardner-Webb University, 2015
  "We find a positive and statistically significant relationship between 1033 transfers and fatalities from officer-involved shootings across all models." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Criminal, Victim, or Worker?: The Effects of New York's Human Trafficking Intervention Courts on Adults Charged with Prostitution-Related Offenses by Red Umbrella Project, October, 2014
  (Decreasing the incarceration of people charged with prostitution is a good step forward, but as long as people who are in the sex trades are "rescued" through arrest, they will continue to be re-victimized by the police and the courts.) See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Police and Policing Practices