We've added 27 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Mortality in Local Jails and State Prisons, 2000-2013 - Statistical Tables by Bureau of Justice Statistics, August, 2015
  "Suicide has been the leading cause of death in jails every year since 2000." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Jails Mental Health
• Buying Access: How Corporations Influence Decision Makers at Corrections Conferences, Trainings, and Meetings by In the Public Interest, August, 2015
  "In 2014, sponsors, vendors, corporate partners, and other non-individual entities contributed at least $3 million to five of the largest professional corrections associations." See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization
• Studying Deterrence Among High-Risk Adolescents by Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, August, 2015
  "There was no meaningful reduction in offending or arrests in response to more severe punishment (e.g., correctional placement, longer stays)." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Created Equal: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the US Criminal Justice System by National Council on Crime and Delinquency, March, 2009
  "African Americans make up 13% of the general US population, yet they constitute 28% of all arrests, 40% of all inmates held in prisons and jails, and 42% of the population on death row." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights
• Guilty Property: How Law Enforcement Takes $1 Million in Cash from Innocent Philadelphians Every Year -- and Gets Away with It by ACLU of Pennsylvania, June, 2015
  "Every year, Pennsylvania law enforcement agencies take roughly $14 million in cash, cars, and homes from property owners and never give it back." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Trials
• Justice Expenditure And Employment Extracts, 2012 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, February, 2015
  (This series includes estimates of government expenditures and employment at the national, federal, state, and local levels for the following justice categories: police protection, all judicial and legal functions, and corrections.) See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• Jails: Intergovernmental Dimensions of a Local Problem by Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, May, 1984
  "According to the latest survey of jails, there currently are 3,493 such facilities in the United States, holding more than 212,000 people at any given time, and approximately 7 million over the course of the year." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Evaluation of Offenders Released in Fiscal Year 2011 That Completed Rehabilitation Tier Programs by Texas Department of Criminal Justice, April, 2015
  "Five of the nine programs tracked showed a lower recidivism rate than the comparison group after the two year follow-up and seven showed a lower recidivism rate after three years." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Tribal Crime Data Collection Activities, 2015 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2015
  "At midyear 2013, a total of 2,287 inmates were confined in 79 Indian country jails--a 3.3% decrease from the 2,364 inmates confined at midyear 2012." See similar reports about:
  Jails Crime and Crime Rates
• Characteristics of New Commitments 1995 by New York Department of Correctional Services, 1997
  "There were 34,721 total admissions to the New York State Department of Correctional Services in calendar year 1995." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Profile of Inmates Undercustody on January 1, 2001 by New York Department of Correctional Services, 2001
  "There were 70,153 inmates undercustody on January 1, 2001, of whom 66,874 (95.3%) were men and 3,279 (4.7%) were women." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Profile of Inmate Population Under Custody on January 1, 2004 by New York Department of Correctional Services, 2004
  "There were 65,197 inmates under custody on January 1, 2004, of whom 62,284 (95.5%) were men and 2,913 (4.5%) were women." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• The Impact of an Aging Inmate Population on the Federal Bureau of Prisons by DOJ Office of the Inspector General, May, 2015
  "According to BOP data, inmates age 50 and older were the fastest growing segment of its inmate population, increasing 25 percent from 24,857 in fiscal year (FY) 2009 to 30,962 in FY 2013." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2014 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2015
  "In 2013, among students ages 12-18, there were about 1,420,900 nonfatal victimizations at school." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Crime and Crime Rates
• Impact Evaluation of the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience (ABLE) Program at Rikers Island by Vera Institute of Justice, July, 2015
  "Vera determined that the program did not lead to a reduction in recidivism for program participants." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Recidivism and Reentry
• Stuck in the '70s: The Demographics of California Prosecutors by Stanford Criminal Justice Center, July, 2015
  "Latinos are almost 39 percent of the population but only nine percent of California prosecutors." See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights
• Pretrial Detention and Jail Capacity in California by Public Policy Institute of California, July, 2015
  "But California's high rates of pretrial detention have not been associated with lower rates of failure to appear or lower levels of felony rearrests." See similar reports about:
  Jails Pretrial Detention
• Mortality In Local Jails And State Prisons, 2000-2011 - Statistical Tables by Bureau of Justice Statistics, August, 2013
  "After a decline in 2008, the mortality rate for jail inmates has remained relatively stable (125 deaths per 100,000 inmates in 2010 and 122 per 100,000 in 2011)." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Native Lives Matter by Lakota People's Law Project, February, 2015
  "Native American men are admitted to prison at four times the rate of white men and Native women at six-fold the rate of white women." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights
• How Racial Attitudes and Ideology Affect Political Rights for Felons by Du Bois Review, May, 2015
  "Consistent with much of the literature on attitudes toward ameliorative racial policies, higher levels of racial resentment strongly predict lower support for felons' political rights among both conservatives and liberals." See similar reports about:
  Public Opinion Felon Disenfranchisement
• Investigation of the St. Louis County Family Court St. Louis, Missouri by Department of Justice, July, 2015
  "Black children are almost one-and-a-half times (1.46) more likely than White children to have their cases handled formally, even after introducing control variables such as gender, age, risk factors, and severity of the allegation." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Civil Rights Trials
• A Review of the Jail Function within State Unified Corrections Systems by National Institute of Corrections, September, 1997
  "This document describes the provision of jail services in the six states that have integrated state-level prison and jail systems. This type of correctional system is often described as a "state unified system."" See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Profile of Jail Inmates, 1989 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, April, 1991
  "Results from the 1989 Survey of Inmates in Local Jails indicate that between 1983 and 1989, while the jail population increased by 76.9%, its composition changed significantly." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Exploring Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) for Women in Massachusetts by Wellesley Centers for Women, July, 2011
  "As stated previously, the reason that many women are held in the ATU at MCI-F is because they lacked the financial resources to secure bail set as low as $50.00." See similar reports about:
  Women Pretrial Detention
• Children of Incarcerated Parents in New York State: A Data Analysis by NYS Division of Criminal Justice Services, 2013
  "Almost half (49%) of survey respondents reported being the parent of a child under the age of 21." See similar reports about:
  Families
• Independent Correctional Oversight Mechanisms Across the United States: A 50-State Inventory by Pace Law Review, September, 2010
  (Although this report is thick with examples of entities that perform (or have the authority to perform) some kind of oversight function, it should be clear upon closer examination that formal and comprehensive external oversight is truly rare.) See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare Jails Prison Procedures
• Reducing Mass Incarceration Requires Far-Reaching Reforms by Urban Institute, August, 2015
  (Cutting total admissions in half for the 15 states in the forecaster would reduce their collective prison population by 37 percent through 2021.) See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes