We've added 7 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June, 2015 by Federal Bureau of Investigation, January, 2016
  (Preliminary figures indicate that law enforcement agencies throughout the nation showed an overall increase of 1.7 percent in the number of violent crimes brought to their attention for the first 6 months of 2015 when compared with the same time in 2014.) See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Report and Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing by U.S. Department of Justice, January, 2016
  "At its worst, and when applied without regard to basic standards of decency, restrictive housing can cause serious, long-lasting harm. It is the responsibility of all governments to ensure that this practice is used only as necessary." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Mental Health
• Rates of Sexual Victimization in Prison for Inmates With and Without Mental Disorders by Psychiatric services, 2007
  "Approximately one in 12 male inmates with a mental disorder reported at least one incident of sexual victimization by another inmate over a six-month period, compared with one in 33 male inmates without a mental disorder." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Prisoner Welfare
• Public Research Universities: Changes in State Funding by American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2015
  "In general, state spending on corrections has grown much faster than education spending over the last three decades. In eleven states, corrections has now surpassed higher education as a percentage of funding." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Education
• Locked Up & Shipped Away: Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry Winter 2016 Update by Grassroots Leadership, January, 2016
  (Since the 2013 release of Locked Up and Shipped Away, the same four states (Vermont, California, Idaho, and Hawaii) continue to house a portion of their prisoners in private prisons out of state. And, a fifth state, Arkansas has also opted to do so.) See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization Prison and The Economy Prisoner Welfare
• Sexual Victimization Reported by Juvenile Correctional Authorities, 2007-12 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, January, 2016
  "In 2012, juvenile correctional administrators reported 865 allegations of sexual victimization in state juvenile systems and 613 in local or private facilities and Indian country facilities." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Juveniles
• You've Got Mail: The promise of cyber communication in prisons and the need for regulation by Prison Policy Initiative, January, 2016
  (There are many benefits to electronic messaging in correctional facilities, but our analysis finds that the technology is primed to be just another opportunity for for-profit companies to exploit families and subvert regulations of phone calls.) See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Families Prison Privatization Prisoner Welfare