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Research Clearinghouse updates

The Prison Policy Initiative research clearinghouse has been updated with 17 new reports:

• A Living Death Life Without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses
  by ACLU, November, 2013
  "About 79 percent of the 3,278 prisoners serving life without parole were sentenced to die in prison for nonviolent drug crimes."
  See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Drug Policy
• Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
  by National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, October, 2013
  "We have to question why we are using the long arm of the criminal justice system to arrest... black and Latino men who write their name on a wall, or why we arrest kids for pot in a pocket when we don't arrest other kids for pot."
  See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights
• Virginia's Justice System Expensive, Ineffective and Unfair
  by Justice Policy Institute, November, 2013
  "Virginia's aggressive stance on arresting people for drug violations has had no effect on reducing drug use. In fact, illicit drug use has increased in recent years."
  See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• A Second Chance Charting a New Course for Re-Entry and Criminal Justice Reform
  by Leadership Conference Education Fund, October, 2013
  "...the United States currently incarcerates ...more than 2.2 million individuals. And that's just people who are physically in jail or prison. If we count people on parole and people on probation, that number jumps to almost 7 million."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry
• Report on Suicide Prevention Practices within the District of Colombia, Department of Corrections' Central Detention Facility
  by DC Department of Corrections, September, 2013
  "...correctional officers that are assigned to the mental health unit ...in the Central Detention Facility do not receive any specialized mental health and/or suicide prevention training."
  See similar reports about:
  Mental Health
• Sentencing and Prison Practices in Germany and the Netherlands: Implications for the United States
  by Vera, October, 2013
  "Many countries in Northern Europe-- such as Germany and the Netherlands--have significantly lower incarceration rates and make much greater use of non-custodial penalties, particularly for nonviolent crimes."
  See similar reports about:
  International Incarceration Comparisons
• Funding Public Safety Realignment
  by Public Policy Institute of California, November, 2013
  "Achieving lower rates of recidivism is a key goal for the state because the share of individuals returning to crime has a direct bearing on the state's ability to reduce prison crowding."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• A Lifetime of Punishment: The Impact of the Felony Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits
  by The Sentencing Project, November, 2013
  "... there is little reason to believe that barring individuals with felony drug convictions from receiving welfare benefits deters drug use or crime."
  See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy Community Impact
• Locked Up & Shipped Away: Interstate Prison Transfers and the Private Prison Industry
  by Grassroots Leadership, November, 2013
  "Currently, prisoners in out-of-state private facilities are held approximately 450 miles to nearly 3,000 miles from their home states."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization
• Intimate Partner Violence: Attributes of Victimizations, 1993-2011
  by U.S. Department of Justice, November, 2013
  "From 1994 to 2011, the rate of serious intimate partner violence declined 72% for females and 64% for males."
  See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Impact of Realignment on County Jail Populations
  by Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2013
  "Between June 2011 and June 2012, the state prison population declined by 26,600 inmates. Concurrently, California's county average daily jail population grew by about 8,600 inmates..."
  See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Community Impact
• Rethinking the State-Local Relationship
  by Public Policy Institute of California, August, 2011
  "The legislature has passed and Governor Jerry Brown has signed legislation (AB 109) to send roughly 30,000 prisoners to county jail rather than state prison."
  See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Community Impact
• Reforming Funding to Reduce Mass Incarceration
  by Brennan Center for Justice, November, 2013
  "More than 68 million Americans -- a quarter of the nation's population -- have criminal records."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• The Impact of Federal Budget Cuts from FY10-FY13 on State and Local Public Safety
  by Vera Institute of Justice, November, 2013
  "Overall funding for Department of Justice grant programs has dropped by 43 percent since FY10."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• An Offer You Can't Refuse How US Federal Prosecutors Force Drug Defendants to Plead Guilty
  by Human Rights Watch, December, 2013
  "In 2012, the average sentence of federal drug offenders convicted after trial was three times higher (16 years) than that received after a guilty plea (5 years and 4 months)."
  See similar reports about:
  Trials
• State Court Organization, 2011
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, November, 2013
  "From 1980 to 2011, the number of state trial court judges increased 11%, from 24,784 to 27,570 (figure 1). During the same period, the U.S. population increased 37%, and arrests in the U.S. increased 19%."
  See similar reports about:
  Trials
• Alone & Afraid Children Held in Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facilities
  by American Civil Liberties Union, November, 2013
  "Solitary confinement and isolation of children in juvenile facilities is psychologically, developmentally, and physically damaging and can result in long-term problems and even suicide."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles