We've added 15 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2016 by Prison Policy Initiative, June, 2016
  "[P]lacing each state in a global context reveals that incarceration policy in every region of this country is out of step with the rest of the world." See similar reports about:
  International Incarceration Comparisons Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• The Gavel Gap: Who Sits in Judgment on State Courts? by American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, June, 2016
  "We find that courts are not representative of the people whom they serve — that is, a gap exists between the bench and the citizens." See similar reports about:
  Trials Civil Rights Women
• America's Top Five Deadliest Prosecutors: How Overzealous Personalities Drive the Death Penalty by The Fair Punishment Project, June, 2016
  "There are more than 3,100 counties, 2,400 head prosecutors, and thousands of line prosecutors in America — yet only a tiny handful of prosecutors are responsible for a vastly disproportionate number of death sentences." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty Sentencing Policy Trials
• Justice by Geography: Do politics influence the prosecution of youth as adults? by Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, June, 2016
  "Granting prosecutors the sole discretion to determine whether a youth is tried in adult court contributes to a system of extreme disparities." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Sentencing Policy
• Update: Changes in State Imprisonment by Brennan Center for Justice, June, 2016
  "[This fact sheet] analyzes data from all 50 states on imprisonment and crime from 2006 (as bipartisan criminal justice reforms generally began around 2007) through 2014 (the most recent year of data)." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• A Multi-Level Bayesian Analysis of Racial Bias in Police Shootings at the County-Level in the United States, 2011-2014 by University of California, Davis, November, 2015
  "The results provide evidence of a significant bias in the killing of unarmed black Americans relative to unarmed white Americans[.]" See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Civil Rights
• Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment by University of Michigan, June, 2016
  "Our results confirm that criminal records are a major barrier to employment, but they also support the concern that BTB policies encourage statistical discrimination on the basis of race." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Recidivism and Reentry
• The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in State Prisons by The Sentencing Project, June, 2016
  "This report documents the rates of incarceration for whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, providing racial and ethnic composition as well as rates of disparity for each state." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Marijuana Legalization in Colorado: Early Findings by Colorado Department of Public Safety, March, 2016
  "The total number of marijuana arrests decreased by 46% between 2012 and 2014, from 12,894 to 7,004." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy
• Recidivism of Offenders Placed on Federal Community Supervision in 2005: Patterns from 2005 to 2010 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, June, 2016
  "Overall, 35% of these offenders were arrested within 3 years and 43% were arrested within 5 years of placement on community supervision." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Crime and Crime Rates
• Isolated in Essex: Punishing immigrants through solitary confinement by New Jersey Advocates for Immigrant Detainees, American Friends Service Committee, and New York University School of Law Immigrants Rights Clinic, June, 2016
  "This report completes the picture by presenting an analysis of previously unavailable data regarding the use of disciplinary solitary confinement ("disciplinary segregation") against immigrant detainees in Essex County Correctional Facility[.]" See similar reports about:
  Immigration Detainees Prisoner Welfare
• Raising Cain: The Role of Serious Mental Illness in Family Homicides by Treatment Advocacy Center, June, 2016
  "[T]his is the first study of the role of serious mental illness in all family homicides." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Crime and Crime Rates Families
• Police Integrity Lost: A Study of Law Enforcement Officers Arrested by U.S. Department of Justice, April, 2016
  "This study is a quantitative content analysis of archived news articles and court records reporting on the arrest(s) of law enforcement officers in the United States from 2005-2011." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices Crime and Crime Rates
• Overview of Federal Criminal Cases: Fiscal Year 2015 by United States Sentencing Commission, June, 2016
  "The 71,003 individual original cases reported to the Commission in fiscal year 2015 represent a decrease of 4,833 (6.4%) cases from fiscal year 2014." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• The Prosecution of Youth as Adults: A county-level analysis of prosecutorial direct file in California and its disparate impact on youth of color by Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, W. Haywood Burn's Institute, National Center for Youth Law, June, 2016
  "This report...presents county rates of direct file compared to the youth population and rates of youth arrests, and highlights racial and ethnic disparities." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Sentencing Policy