We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 15 new reports to the research library:

• Intra-City Differences in Federal Sentencing Practices Federal District Judges in 30 Cities, 2005 - 2017 by United States Sentencing Commission, January, 2019
  "In most cities, the length of a defendant's sentence increasingly depends on which judge in the courthouse is assigned to his or her case." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Top Trends in State Criminal Justice Reform, 2018 by Sentencing Project, January, 2019
  This briefing paper describes key criminal justice reforms undertaken in 2018. Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• The Economics of Bail and Pretrial Detention by The Hamilton Project, December, 2018
  "Pretrial detention has a substantially negative economic impact on individuals, disrupting their labor market activities and causing increased recidivism." Categories: Pretrial Detention
• Associations between sex work laws and sex workers' health: A systematic review and meta-analysis of quantitative and qualitative studies by Lucy Platt et al., December, 2018
  "The public health evidence clearly shows the harms associated with all forms of sex work criminalization, including regulatory systems, which effectively leave the most marginalized, and typically the majority of, sex workers outside of the law." Categories: Health impact
• Work and opportunity before and after incarceration by Brookings Institution, March, 2018
  "The combination of high rates of incarceration and low employment rates among exprisoners implies that roughly one third of all not-working 30-year-old men are either in prison, in jail, or are unemployed former prisoners." Categories: Economics of Incarceration Recidivism and Reentry
• How the Criminalization of Pregnancy Robs Women of Reproductive Autonomy by Michele Goodwin, November, 2017
  "More than one-third of states consider pregnant women's illicit drug use a form of child abuse, resulting in unprecedented forms of criminal and civil punishment" Categories: Women Health impact
• Driven by Dollars: A State-By-State Analysis of Driver's License Suspension Laws for Failure to Pay Court Debt by Legal Aid Justice Center, September, 2017
  "43 states (and D.C.) suspend driver's licenses because of unpaid court debt." Categories: Economics of Incarceration Poverty and wealth
• Criminalizing Pregnancy: Policing Pregnant Women Who Use Drugs in the USA by Amnesty International, May, 2017
  "Often known as "fetal assault", "chemical endangerment" or "personhood" laws, these measures have been used to arrest and prosecute women who experience pregnancy complications and conditions such as drug dependence." Categories: Women Drug Policy Health impact
• Invisible Women: Mass Incarceration's Forgotten Casualties by Michele Goodwin, June, 2015
  "To place this in context, the U.S. jails more women than Russia, China, Thailand, and India combined. Nearly a third of the world's women inmates are incarcerated in the United States." Categories: Women
• Justice Derailed: A case study of abusive and unconstitutional practices in Colorado city courts by ACLU of Colorado, 2015
  "Colorado's municipal courts operate with little meaningful statewide oversight or accountability, providing an opportunity for civil liberties violations and other abusive practices to occur unnoticed, unreported, and unaddressed by state agencies." Categories: Trials
• To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement by Michael D. Makowsky, Thomas Stratmann, and Alexander T. Tabarrok, 2015
  This study finds increases in arrest rates of African-Americans and Hispanics for drugs, DUI violations, and prostitution where local governments are running deficits, but only in states that allow police departments to retain seizure revenues. Categories: Economics of Incarceration
• Mortality After Prison Release: Opioid Overdose and Other Causes of Death, Risk Factors, and Time Trends From 1999 to 2009 by Ingrid A. Binswanger et al., October, 2013
  "The leading cause of death in former prisoners was overdose. Pharmaceutical opioids were the most common substances involved in these deaths." Categories: Health impact Drug Policy
• Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973-2005: Implications for Women's Legal Status and Public Health by Lynn Paltrow and Jeanne Flavin, April, 2013
  This research shows that arrests, detentions, and forced interventions of pregnant women disproportionately impact Black and low-income women. Categories: Women Health impact
• Roe v Wade and the new Jane Crow: Reproductive rights in the age of mass incarceration by Lynn Paltrow, January, 2013
  "Efforts to establish separate legal" Categories: Women Health impact
• The War on Drugs and the War on Abortion: Some Initial Thoughts on the Connections, Intersections, and the Effects by Lynn Paltrow, May, 2002
  By recognizing the similarity between reproductive rights and the drug war there is an opportunity for a deeper understanding of each issue and a basis for developing analysis and action that can counteract the forces of punishment and prohibition. Categories: Women Drug Policy Health impact