We've added 23 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• States of Women's Incarceration: The Global Context by Prison Policy Initiative, November, 2015
  "When compared to jurisdictions across the globe, even the U.S. states with the lowest levels of incarceration are far out of line." See similar reports about:
  Women Incarceration Rates Growth Causes International Incarceration Comparisons
• Prison Time Surges for Federal Inmates by The Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project, November, 2015
  "The average length of time served by federal inmates more than doubled from 1988 to 2012, rising from 17.9 to 37.5 months." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Corrections Spending Through the State Budget Since 2007-08: Still High Despite Recent Reforms by California Budget & Policy Center, November, 2015
  (While total corrections spending as a share of the state budget is down slightly since 2007-08, spending for adults under state jurisdiction remains stubbornly high.) See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• Juvenile Commitment Rate Drops 53% by The Pew Charitable Trusts Public Safety Performance Project, November, 2015
  "From 2001 to 2013, the U.S. juvenile commitment rate declined 53 percent, according to data recently released by the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• In Jail & In Debt: Ohio's Pay-to-Stay Fees by ACLU of Ohio, November, 2015
  (Ohioans are getting billed up to $66.09 a day to be in jail.) See similar reports about:
  Jails Prison and The Economy
• Fees Paid by Jail Inmates: Fee Categories, Revenues, and Management Perspectives in a Sample of U.S. Jails by National Institute of Corrections, December, 2005
  "Survey responses indicate that 90% of the jails that responded are currently charging jail inmate fees." See similar reports about:
  Jails Prison and The Economy
• Battle Scars: Military Veterans and the Death Penalty by Death Penalty Information Center, November, 2015
  "Although a definitive count has yet to be made, approximately 300 veterans are on death row today, and many others have already been executed." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty
• Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture by Institute for Justice, November, 2015
  "In 1986, the Department of Justice's Assets Forfeiture Fund took in $93.7 million in revenue from federal forfeitures. By 2014, annual deposits had reached $4.5 billion—a 4,667 percent increase." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Prison and The Economy
• Citizens Police Data Project by Invisible Institute, 2015
  "28,567 allegations of misconduct were filed against Chicago Police Department officers between March 2011 and September 2015." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Does Parole Supervision Work? Research Findings and Policy Opportunities by Urban Institute, March, 2006
  (This article begins with an argument for why we should study supervision and concludes with some thoughts about policy opportunities for the field, arguing that the current focus on prisoner reentry provides a timely opportunity to "reinvent" parole.) See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Who Gets Time for Federal Drug Offenses? Data Trends and Opportunities for Reform by Urban Institute, November, 2015
  (This brief finds that many people in federal prison for drug crimes have minimal or no criminal histories, and most were not convicted of violent or leading roles.) See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Drug Policy
• Changing Gears: California's Shift to Smart Justice by ACLU of California, November, 2015
  "By June 2015, almost 160,000 petitions had been filed to reduce a felony to a misdemeanor." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Crime and Crime Rates Jails
• Proposition 47 Progress Report: Year One Implementation by Stanford Law School Stanford Justice Advocacy Project, October, 2015
  "Since the enactment of Proposition 47 on November 14, 2014, the number of people incarcerated in California's prisons and jails has decreased by approximately 13,000 inmates, helping alleviate crowding conditions in those institutions." See similar reports about:
  Jails Prison and The Economy Sentencing Policy
• Hate Crime Statistics, 2014 by Federal Bureau of Investigation, November, 2015
  "Of the 5,462 single-bias incidents reported in 2014, 47 percent were racially motivated. Other motivators included sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, disability, and gender." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Civil Rights
• State Firearm Legislation and Nonfatal Firearm Injuries by American Journal of Public Health, August, 2015
  "There is significant variation in state-level hospital discharge rates for nonfatal firearm injuries, and stricter state firearm legislation is associated with lower discharge rates for such injuries." See similar reports about:
  Gun Control
• First Do No Harm: Advancing Public Health in Policing Practices by Vera Institute of Justice, November, 2015
  (This report details the cultural divide among system actors that amplify and sustain these problems and offers recommendations on how law enforcement policymakers and practitioners can enhance both public safety and community health.) See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Police and Policing Practices
• Police Use of Nonfatal Force, 2002-11 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, November, 2015
  "Of those who had contact, 1.6% experienced the threat or use of nonfatal force by the police during their most recent contact." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Investigation of the Newark Police Department by United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, July, 2014
  "Approximately 75% of reports of pedestrian stops by NPD officers failed to articulate sufficient legal basis for the stop, despite the NPD policy requiring such justification." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Suspended Childhood: An Analysis of Exclusionary Discipline of Texas' Pre-K and Elementary School Students by Texas Appleseed, November, 2015
  "In the 2013-2014 school year, Texas schools issued 88,310 out-of-school suspensions to young children." See similar reports about:
  Education Civil Rights Juveniles
• Predicting Crime through Incarceration: The Impact of Rates of Prison Cycling On Rates of Crime in Communities by National Institute of Justice, May, 2014
  (The study found strong support for the impact of prison cycling on neighborhood crime rates, i.e., when resident removal rates due to incarceration were high, crime rates decreased; when reentry rates were high in a neighborhood, the crime rate increased.) See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates Community Impact Recidivism and Reentry
• Hot Spots Policing by George Mason University Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy, 2015
  "Hot spots policing covers a range of police responses that all share in common a focus of resources on the locations where crime is highly concentrated." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Crime and Crime Rates
• Evaluation of the Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment by RAND Corporation, 2014
  "The program did not generate a statistically significant reduction in property crime." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Crime and Crime Rates
• Predictive Policing: The Role of Crime Forecasting in Law Enforcement Operations by RAND Corporation, 2013
  "Predictive policing is the application of analytical techniques—particularly quantitative techniques—to identify likely targets for police intervention and prevent crime or solve past crimes by making statistical predictions." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Crime and Crime Rates