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

• Voting Rights Barriers and Discrimination in 21st Century California 2000-2013
  by Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, March, 2014
  "Structural vote dilution and discrimination continue to plague California. These voting rights violations are just as real today as they were when the VRA was first enacted in 1965..."
  See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights
• Report on the Psychiatric Management of John Salvi in Massachusetts Department of Correction Facilities 1995-1996
  by University of Massachusetts Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, January, 1997
  "...in our opinion, the number of full-time equivalent psychiatrists within the DOC is far too low to meet the psychiatric needs of the inmate population."
  See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Prisoner Welfare
• Prisons and Sentencing in Massachusetts Waging a More Effective Fight Against Crime
  by MassInc, June, 1999
  "Critics of mandatory minimum drug laws, both state and federal, claim that these draconian penalties are jamming prisons with nonviolent offenders, many of them serving long sentences for a first conviction."
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  Sentencing Policy
• The contagious nature of imprisonment an agent-based model to explain racial disparities in incarceration rates
  by The Royal Society, June, 2014
  "Our model suggests that increased sentencing for an individual has negative effects that spread through social networks to affect families and whole communities."
  See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Crime and Crime Rates
• Is Public Safety Realignment Reducing Recidivism in California?
  by Public Policy Institute of California, June, 2014
  "Realignment's success depends largely on efforts addressing recidivism among former prison inmates and other convicted offenders diverted from prison as a result of the reform."
  See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• War Comes Home The Excessive Militarization of American Policing
  by American Civil Liberties Union, June, 2014
  "Using... federal funds, state and local law enforcement agencies have amassed military arsenals purportedly to wage the failed War on Drugs, the battlegrounds of which have disproportionately been in communities of color."
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  Police and Policing Practices
• Latino Voices The Impacts of Crime and Criminal Justice Policies on Latinos
  by Californians for Safety and Justice, June, 2014
  "...the data that does exist ��" specifically research on Latino victimization rates and their treatment in the justice system ��" paints a troubling picture of "cumulative disadvantage" for the safety of Latino individuals, families and communities."
  See similar reports about:
  Community Impact
• Justice Expenditure And Employment Extracts, 2009 Final
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2014
  "This series includes national, federal, and state-level estimates of government expenditures and employment for the following justice categories: police protection, all judicial and legal functions... and corrections."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• Justice Expenditure And Employment Extracts, 2010 Final
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2014
  "This series includes national, federal, and state-level estimates of government expenditures and employment for the following justice categories: police protection, all judicial and legal functions... and corrections."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy
• Indicators Of School Crime And Safety, 2013
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2014
  "During the 2009��"10 school year, 85% of public schools recorded that one or more crime incidents had taken place at school, amounting to an estimated 1.9 million crimes."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Education
• The Crisis of Violence in Georgia's Prisons
  by Southern Center for Human Rights, July, 2014
  "Prison officials violate the Constitution if they know that people in prison face a substantial risk of serious harm, but disregard that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to protect prisoners."
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  Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare
• The Double Edged Sword of Prison Video Visitation Claiming to Keep Families Together While Furthering the Aims of the Prison Industrial Complex
  by Patrice A. Fulcher, Associate Professor at John Marshall Law School, July, 2014
  "The use of inmate video visitation services must not be oppressive, so fees must be affordable and transparent so that there are no hidden costs."
  (published in 9 Fla. A&M. U. L. Rev. 83 (2014)
  ) See similar reports about:
  Prison Procedures Families
• State Prison Health Care Spending An Examination
  by Pew Charitable Trusts, July, 2014
  "As the number of inmates who have grown old behind bars dramatically increased, so did the health care costs required to treat them."
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  Prisoner Welfare
• Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Probation Revocation Summary Findings and Implications from a Multisite Study
  by Urban Institute, April, 2014
  "Black probationers were revoked at higher rates than white and Hispanic probationers in all study sites."
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  Recidivism and Reentry
• The Early Release of Prisoners And its Impact on Police Agencies and Communities in California
  by Police Executive Research Forum, May, 2011
  "...there is research indicating that enforcement alone is ineffective in lowering recidivism rates, and in any case, prisons are far too expensive to be used as a default sanction for many criminal offenders."
  See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Recidivism and Reentry
• Voices from the Field How California Stakeholders View Public Safety Realignment
  by Stanford Criminal Justice Center, January, 2014
  "...counties now must handle virtually all drug and property crime sentences, which represented 54% of all felony arrestees convicted in California in 2010."
  See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Recalibrating Justice A Review of 2013 State Sentencing and Corrections Trends
  by Vera Institute of Justice, July, 2014
  "In 2013, at least six states authorized the creation or expansion of diversion programs or strengthened the infrastructure support- ing existing programs."
  See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy

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