We've added 19 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Investigation of the Baltimore City Police Department by U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, August, 2016
  "[T]he Department of Justice concludes that there is reasonable cause to believe that BPD engages in a pattern or practice of conduct that violates the Constitution or federal law." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Civil Rights Community Impact
• Racial Profiling in Hiring: A Critique of New "Ban the Box" Studies by National Employment Law Project, August, 2016
  "Ban-the-box is working, both by increasing employment opportunities for people with records and by changing employer attitudes toward hiring people with records." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights
• Overlooked: Women and Jails in an Era of Reform by Vera Institute of Justice, August, 2016
  "At this critical moment in jail and local justice system reform, Vera has taken stock of the existing research on women in jail to begin to reframe the conversation to include them." See similar reports about:
  Women Families Jails
• Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Monitoring of Contract Prisons by U.S. Department of Justice, August, 2016
  "We found that, in most key areas, contract prisons incurred more safety and security incidents per capita than comparable BOP institutions and that the BOP needs to improve how it monitors contract prisons in several areas." See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization
• Debtors' Prison for Kids? The High Cost of Fines and Fees in the Juvenile Justice System by Juvenile Law Center, August, 2015
  "Youth who can't pay for alternative programs may enter the juvenile justice system when a wealthier peer would not." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Families
• Missouri Policy Shortens Probation and Parole Terms, Protects Public Safety by The Pew Charitable Trusts, August, 2016
  "Three years of data show that the earned compliance credit policy significantly reduced the state's supervised population without jeopardizing public safety." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Community Impact Recidivism and Reentry
• A New Era for Expungement Law Reform? Recent Developments at the State and Federal Levels by Temple University, Beasley School of Law, August, 2016
  "This article evaluates the recent flurry of state-level legislation relating to expungement remedies for publicly available criminal record information, including both conviction and arrest records." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Civil Rights
• Local Justice Reinvestment: Strategies, Outcomes, and Keys to Success by Urban Institute, August, 2016
  "Over the past six years, 17 local jurisdictions across the country have worked diligently to implement [Justice Reinvestment Initiative], and it appears these efforts have generally paid off." See similar reports about:
  Jails Data Collection
• Unjust: How the broken criminal justice system fails LGBT people of color by Center for American Progress, Movement Advancement Project.., August, 2016
  "This report focuses on LGBT people of color and their interactions with the criminal justice system." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Community Impact Juveniles
• Community Cages: Profitizing community corrections and alternatives to incarceration by American Friends Service Committee, August, 2016
  "The profitization of community corrections poses a serious threat to the movement to end mass incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization Prison and The Economy
• Defining Violence: Reducing Incarceration and Rethinking America's Approach to Violence by Justice Policy Institute, August, 2016
  "[This report] explores how something is defined as a violent or nonviolent crime, how that classification affects how the justice system treats a person, and how all that relates to the use of incarceration." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process by J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, August, 2016
  "This Article sheds light on the problems caused by introducing an overtly economic calculation (how cheaply and how profitably the prosecutorial function may be fulfilled) into the criminal adjudicative process." See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Sentencing Policy
• The Downstream Consequences of Misdemeanor Pretrial Detention by University of Pennsylvania Law School, July, 2016
  "We find that detained defendants are 25% more likely than similarly situated releasees to plead guilty, 43% more likely to be sentenced to jail, and receive jail sentences that are more than twice as long on average." See similar reports about:
  Jails Sentencing Policy
• Distortion of Justice: How the Inability to Pay Bail Affects Case Outcomes by University of Pennsylvania Law School, May, 2016
  "While previous research has shown correlations between pretrial detention and unfavorable case outcomes, this paper is the first to use a quasi-experimental research design to show that the relationship is causal." See similar reports about:
  Jails Sentencing Policy
• Charging the Poor: Criminal Justice Debt & Modern-Day Debtors' Prisons by Texas A&M University - School of Law, December, 2015
  "[M]y Article proposes eliminating egregious sanctions, providing courts flexibility to base fines on earning levels, and establishing procedures to enforce restrictions against incarcerating those who are truly unable to pay their criminal justice debt." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Community Impact
• Transforming Prisons, Restoring Lives: Final Recommendations of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections by Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections, January, 2016
  "Sentencing reform and other policy changes will reduce our reliance on prison and cut costs as we reconsider which people truly need to be behind bars and for how long." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Recidivism and Reentry
• Evaluation of Strategies to Reduce Louisiana's Incarceration Rate and Costs for Nonviolent Offenders by Louisiana Legislative Auditor, August, 2016
  "[T]he purpose of this report was to evaluate potential strategies to reduce incarceration rates and costs for nonviolent offenders in Louisiana." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Prison and The Economy
• Roadblock to Economic Independence: How Driver's License Suspension Policies in Indiana Impede Self-Sufficiency, Burden State Government... by Health and Human Rights Clinic, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, February, 2016
  "Beside the cost to individuals, driver's license suspensions significantly impact employers, government resources, and public safety." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Community Impact
• Right to Counsel in Utah: An Assessment of Trial-Level Indigent Defense Services by Sixth Amendment Center, October, 2015
  "Utah's trial courts do not uniformly provide counsel to indigent defendants at all critical stages of criminal cases as required by the U.S. Supreme Court[.]" See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights