The Prison Policy Initiative research clearinghouse has been updated with 13 new reports:

• Treatment of the Highest-risk Offenders Can Avoid Costs
  by Oregon Secretary of State, August, 2013
  "Oregon taxpayers and victims could have avoided about $21.6 million in costs if substance abuse treatment had been provided to all of the highest-risk offenders."
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  Drug Policy Prison and The Economy
• Re-Entry Policy Study Commission report Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council
  by Indianapolis-Marion County City-County Council Re-Entry Policy Study Commission, August, 2013
  "Employment was the number one predictor of recidivism. The recidivism rate among the unemployed offenders was 42.4%; recidivism among the employed offenders was 26.2%."
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  Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry
• Crime in California 2012
  by California Attorney General and California Department of Justice, August, 2013
  "The homicide rate remained at a rate 18 percent lower than the average homicide rate for the prior ten years."
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  Crime and Crime Rates
• Motivation for Treatment Among Women Offenders in Prison-Based Treatment and Longitudinal Outcomes Among Those Who Participate in Community Aftercare
  by National Institutes of Health, September, 2011
  "Participants who completed the aftercare program, or who had longer treatment duration, and those who had participated in an in-prison program prior to parole had reduced risk of recidivism."
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  Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry Women
• International Growth Trends in Prison Privatization
  by Sentencing Project, August, 2013
  "Prison privatization is most concentrated and most fully privatized in a handful of predominantly English-speaking countries. These include Australia, Scotland, England and Wales, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States."
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  Prison Privatization International Incarceration Comparisons
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Education A Meta-Analysis of Programs That Provide Education to Incarcerated Adults
  by RAND Corporation, August, 2013
  "On average, inmates who participated in correctional education programs had 43% lower odds of recidivating than inmates who did not, and the odds of obtaining employment postrelease was 13% higher than those who had not participated."
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  Education Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry
• A Performance Audit of Inmate High School Education
  by Utah Legislative Auditor General, August, 2012
  "In fiscal year 2011, over 5,200 inmates were enrolled in adult education, which is about 22 percent of Utah's entire adult education program."
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  Education Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry
• Improvements Needed in Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring and Evaluation of Impact of Segregated Housing
  by Government Accountability Office, May, 2013
  "Without an assessment of the impact of segregation on institutional safety or study of the long-term impact of segregated housing on inmates, BOP cannot determine the extent to which segregated housing achieves its stated purpose."
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  Prison Procedures Mental Health
• Highlights of the 2011 National Youth Gang Survey
  by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, September, 2013
  "Change estimates from 2010 to 2011 indicate a measurable increase in gangs and gang members and a nearly 8-percent drop in the number of recorded gang-related homicides."
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  Crime and Crime Rates Juveniles
• Results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health: Summary of National Findings
  by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, September, 2013
  "Among adults aged 50 to 64, the rate of current illicit drug use increased during the past decade. For adults aged 50-54, the rate increased from 3.4% in 2002 to 7.2% in 2012, and among those aged 55-59 it increased from 1.9% in 2002 to 6.6% in 2012."
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  Drug Policy
• Measuring the Prevalence of Crime with the National Crime Victimization Survey
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2013
  "The percentage of violent crime victims who experienced two or more victimizations during a year declined from 23% in 1993 to 17% in 2010. In 2010, this 17% accounted for more than half (54%) of all violent victimizations."
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  Data Collection Crime and Crime Rates
• The Virginia Death Penalty Assessment Report An Analysis of Virginia's Death Penalty Laws, Procedures, and Practices
  by American Bar Association, August, 2013
  "Between 1989 and 2013, at least 18 people in Virginia whose convictions were based largely on eyewitness misidentifications have been exonerated of serious violent felonies following DNA testing or the discovery of new evidence."
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  Death Penalty
• Progress Report: Three Strikes Reform (Proposition 36)
  by Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project and NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, September, 2013
  "Fewer than 2% of the prisoners released under Prop 36 have been charged with new crimes, according to state and county records. The average recidivism rate over a similar period of time for non-Prop 36 inmates leaving California prisons is 16%."
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  Prison Programs Recidivism Reentry Sentencing Policy

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