We've added 17 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Era of Mass Expansion: Why State Officials Should Fight Jail Growth by Prison Policy Initiative, May, 2017
  "In most states over the last three decades, the number of people in jails has outpaced population growth by 2, 3 or even 4 times. In 12 states, the jail population has grown more than 3 times faster than the general population." See similar reports about:
  Jails Mental Health Pretrial Detention
• Selling Off Our Freedom: How insurance corporations have taken over our bail system by Color of Change and the American Civil Liberties Union, May, 2017
  "Fewer than 10 insurance companies are behind a significant majority of bonds issued by as many as 25,000 bail bond agents." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention Civil Rights Community Impact Jails Prison and The Economy
• When did prisons become acceptable mental healthcare facilities? by Stanford Law School Three Strikes Project, May, 2017
  "While the overall state prison population has decreased dramatically, the number of prisoners with mental illness continues to climb and is expected grow in the years ahead." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health Civil Rights Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Prisoner Welfare Sentencing Policy
• Getting Tough on Spending: An Examination of Correctional Expenditure in Massachusetts by MassINC and the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, May, 2017
  "DOC [Department of Corrections] and county facilities combined, the state budget allocation per inmate rose 34 percent between FY 2011 and FY 2016. Over this period, education aid per student increased by only 11 percent." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Community Impact Data Collection Recidivism and Reentry
• The Price of Prisons: Examining State Spending Trends, 2010-2015 by Vera Institute of Justice, May, 2017
  "Since 2010, 23 states have reduced the size of their prison populations. Vera's research found that 13 of these states have saved considerably in taxpayer money - $1.6 billion - at the same time." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Community Impact Prison Programs Prison and The Economy
• Using Time to Reduce Crime: Federal Prisoner Survey Results Show Ways to Reduce Recidivism by Families Against Mandatory Minimums, May, 2017
  "An estimated 45 percent of federal prisoners have mental health and behavioral problems...Two-thirds of prisoners who responded to our survey said they had not received mental or behavioral health counseling while in federal prison." See similar reports about:
  Prison Programs Data Collection Prison and The Economy Recidivism and Reentry
• Paying More for Being Poor: Bias and Disparity in California's Traffic Court System by Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, May, 2017
  "The available county-level data shows that African-American people in particular are four to sixteen times more likely to be booked on arrests related to failure to pay an infraction ticket." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Community Impact Police and Policing Practices
• Capital Punishment, 2014-2015 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, May, 2017
  "Two states accounted for 80% of the executions [in 2016]: Georgia executed nine inmates, and Texas executed seven." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty Civil Rights Data Collection Sentencing Policy
• Still Life: America's Increasing Use of Life and Long-Term Sentences by The Sentencing Project, May, 2017
  "Nearly half (48.3%) of life and virtual life-sentenced individuals are African American, equal to one in five black prisoners overall. As of 2016, 1 in every 9 people in prison was serving a life sentence." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Civil Rights Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Gender and Trauma, Somatic Interventions for Girls in Juvenile Justice: Implications for Policy and Practice by Rebecca Epstein and Thalia Gonzalez, Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, April, 2017
  "Trauma-informed, gender-responsive, and culturally competent somatic interventions can serve as a critical component of physical and mental health approaches for system-involved girls." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Families Mental Health Women
• To Protect and Serve: Trends in State-Level Policing Reform, 2015-2016 by Vera Institute of Justice, April, 2017
  "Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Utah and Washington have enacted laws that either limit the use of certain types of force, such as chokeholds, or mandate or strengthen police training on the legal boundaries of justifiable force." See similar reports about:
  Police and Policing Practices
• Making Families Pay: The Harmful, Unlawful, and Costly Practice of Charging Juvenile Administrative Fees in California by Stephanie Campos-Bui, Jeffrey Selbin, Hamza Jaka, Tim Kline, Ahmed Lavalais, Alynia Phillips, Abby Ridley-Kerr, University of California Berkeley School of Law, March, 2017
  "[W]e did not find a single county in which fee practices were both fair and cost-effective. Counties either improperly charge low-income families and net little revenue, or they fairly assess families' inability to pay and net even less." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Civil Rights Prisoner Welfare
• Preventable Tragedies: How to Reduce Mental-Health Related Deaths in Texas Jails by The University of Texas School of Law Civil Rights Clinic, November, 2016
  "In Texas, state health officials estimate that 30 percent of jail inmates have one or more serious mental illnesses." See similar reports about:
  Jails Mental Health
• The Economic Burden of Incarceration in the U.S. by Institute for Advancing Justice Research and Innovation, October, 2016
  "This study estimates the annual economic burden of incarceration in the United States [by including] important social costs...an aggregate burden of one trillion dollars." See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Data Collection Families
• Evaluating the Role of Race in Criminal Justice Adjudications in Delaware by John M. MacDonald and Ellen A. Donnelly, University of Pennsylvania, September, 2016
  "African American-White disparities in incarceration sentences are largely explained by differences in most serious of arrest charge, type of arrest charge, detention between arrest and final disposition, and county location." See similar reports about:
  Data Collection Civil Rights Police and Policing Practices Recidivism and Reentry Sentencing Policy Trials
• Designed to Break You: Human Rights Violations on Texas' Death Row by Human Rights Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law, 2015
  "Every individual on Texas' death row thus spends approximately 23 hours a day in complete isolation for the entire duration of their sentence, which, on average, lasts more than a decade." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty Data Collection Mental Health Prison Procedures Prisoner Welfare
• Drawing Blood from Stones: Legal Debt and Social Inequality in the Contemporary United States by Alexes Harris, Heather Evans, and Katherine Beckett, University of Washington, May, 2010
  "[F]indings suggest that monetary sanctions create long-term legal debt and significantly extend punishment's effects over time." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Community Impact Prison and The Economy Sentencing Policy