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We've added 11 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Bullies in Blue: Origins and Consequences of School Policing by American Civil Liberties Union, April, 2017
  "[A]t at its origins, school policing enforced social control over Black and Latino youth who could no longer be kept out of neighborhoods and schools through explicitly discriminatory laws." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Civil Rights Community Impact Crime and Crime Rates Families Juveniles Police and Policing Practices
• "Not in it for Justice": How California's Pretrial Detention and Bail System Unfairly Punishes Poor People by Human Rights Watch, April, 2017
  "In six California counties examined in detail in this report, the total cost of jailing people whom the prosecutor never charged or who had charges dropped or dismissed was $37.5 million over two years." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Data Collection Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Jails Police and Policing Practices Pretrial Detention
• The steep cost of medical co-pays in prison puts health at risk by Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiative, 2010
  "In Michigan, it would take over a week to earn enough for a single $5 co-pay, making it the free world equivalent of over $300. In 13 states co-pays are equivalent to charging minimum wage workers more than $200." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Civil Rights Community Impact Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare
• How much do incarcerated people earn in each state? by Wendy Sawyer, Prison Policy Initiative, April, 2017
  "[P]risons appear to be paying incarcerated people less today than they were in 2001. The average of the minimum daily wages paid to incarcerated workers for non-industry prison jobs is now 87 cents, down from 93 cents reported in 2001." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Labor Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare Recidivism and Reentry
• "She Doesn't Deserve to be Treated Like This": Prisons as Sites of Reproductive Injustice by Rachel Roth, Center for Women Policy Studies, July, 2012
  "[T]he well-established nature of women's rights has not stopped prison and jail personnel from trying to deny women abortion care, or at least obstruct women's access to abortion." See similar reports about:
  Women Civil Rights Jails Prison Privatization Prisoner Welfare Women
• The Dose-Response of Time Served in Prison on Mortality: New York State, 1989 to 2003 by Evelyn J. Patterson, University of Vanderbilt, March, 2013
  "After controlling for a variety of demographic and offense-related factors...each year in prison increased the odds of death by 15.6% in this 1989’"1993 parole cohort...an increased odds of death of 78% for somebody who spent 5 years in prison." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Civil Rights Community Impact
• A Wealth of Inequalities: Mass Incarceration, Employment, and Racial Disparities in U.S. Household Wealth, 1996 to 2011 by Bryan L. Sykes, University of Washington and Michelle Maroto, University of Alberta, October, 2016
  "[A] non-Hispanic white household with an institutionalized member would actually hold more in assets than an otherwise similar black or Hispanic household without an institutionalized member." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Families Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Prison and The Economy
• "If They Hand You a Paper, You Sign It": A Call to End the Sterilization of Women in Prison by Rachel Roth and Sara L. Ainsworth, Hastings Women's Law Journal, January, 2015
  "[A] number of states allow the sterilization of incarcerated women’"flouting important policy norms’"and that medical providers and their professional organizations play key roles in sanctioning and carrying out these procedures." See similar reports about:
  Women Civil Rights Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare
• Obstructing Justice: Prisons as Barriers to Medical Care for Pregnant Women by Rachel Roth, UCLA Women's Law Journal, August, 2010
  "Jail and prison staff appear unprepared for pregnancy-related emergencies, and their dismissive attitudes toward pregnant women who say they need medical attention only increase the likelihood of delaying and denying care." See similar reports about:
  Women Civil Rights Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare
• Locked Up and Locked Down: Segregation of Inmates with Mental Illness by Anna Guy, Amplifying Voices of Inmates with Disabilities Prison Project, September, 2016
  "[Protection and Advocacy Agencies] have received countless reports of abuse and neglect of inmates in segregation, including prolonged isolation, deplorable conditions, inadequate care, increased self-harm and suicide attempts, and even death." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Mental Health Prisoner Welfare
• Lethally Deficient: Direct Appeals in Texas Death Penalty Cases by Texas Defender Service, 2016
  "Review by the U.S. Supreme Court was not sought in 34.6% of the cases surveyed, meaning that defense lawyers waived the first opportunity for federal review in more than a third of Texas death penalty cases decided on direct appeal between 2009 and 2015." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty Civil Rights Trials