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Neither here nor there: Incarceration and family instability by Kristin Turney, University of California, Irvine, January, 2014
"[F]indings suggest that, regardless of level of relationship commitment, maintaining relationships while one partner is behind bars is difficult." See similar reports about:
Families Community Impact
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Voting Rights of Former Felons by ACLU of Nebraska, June, 2016
"Disturbingly, a decade after our ex-felon voting rights law was adopted, only half of all counties provided correct and accurate information." See similar reports about:
Felon Disenfranchisement Civil Rights
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Felony Disenfranchisement in the Commonwealth of Kentucky by League of Women Voters of Kentucky, February, 2017
"[O]ne of every four African American adults in Kentucky cannot vote. This rate (26.2%) is more than triple the national African American disenfranchisement rate (7.44%)." See similar reports about:
Felon Disenfranchisement
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Connecticut Employer Survey Practices and Attitudes: The Hiring of Formerly-Incarcerated Persons and Recommendations for Driving Better Outcomes by Malta Justice Initiative Inc., December, 2016
"4 in 10 respondents have no experience in hiring ex-offenders and a quarter say their company has a policy against it. Very few (3%) are actively hiring individuals with a criminal record."
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Recidivism and Reentry Community Impact
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World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List: Third Edition by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, 2015
"Close to three million [people are] held in pre-trial detention and other forms of remand imprisonment throughout the world." See similar reports about:
International Incarceration Comparisons Pretrial Detention
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Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration by Vera Institute of Justice, February, 2017
"[J]ust as it would be wrong to excuse people's actions simply because they were previously victimized, it is also wrong to ignore someone's victimization because the person previously broke a law or committed harm in the past."
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Community Impact Civil Rights
Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Recidivism and Reentry
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A New Normal: Helping the Criminal Justice System Address Opioid Overdoses by Vera Institute of Justice, February, 2017
"[O]ver the last decade communities and public officials have increasingly called for an approach to drug use that employs harm reduction principles, making the issue a public health concern rather than one to be managed by the criminal justice system."
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Drug Policy Crime and Crime Rates
Prison Procedures
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Exonerations in 2016: The National Registry of Exonerations by The National Registry of Exonerations, University of Michigan Law School, March, 2017
"A record 94 exonerations in 2016 were cases in which no crime actually occurred." See similar reports about:
Trials Data Collection
Sentencing Policy
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Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States by National Registry of Exonerations, University of Michigan Law School, March, 2017
"Innocent black murder suspects, especially those who are falsely convicted...are additional victims of murders committed by others. Those who have been exonerated spent on average more than 14 years in prison before they were released."
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Trials Civil Rights
Data Collection Sentencing Policy
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Multi-Site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting, and Partnering by Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, March, 2016
"Fathers with younger children rated their parental warmth and their relationship quality with their children more highly than did fathers of older children, and they also engaged in more activities with their children."
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Families Community Impact
Recidivism and Reentry
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Driving While Black: A Report on Racial Profiling in Metro Nashville Police Department Traffic Stops by Gideon's Army, October, 2016
"Between 2011-2015, MNPD (Metro Nashville Police Department) stopped an average of 1,122 per 1,000 black drivers: " more black drivers than were living in Davidson County." See similar reports about:
Police and Policing Practices Civil Rights
Crime and Crime Rates
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Raising The Age: Shifting to a Safer and More Effective Juvenile Justice System by Justice Policy Institute, March, 2017
"Over the past ten years, half of the states that had previously excluded all 16- and/or 17-year-olds from juvenile court based solely on their age have changed their laws." See similar reports about:
Juveniles Sentencing Policy
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How Do People in High-Crime, Low-Income Communities View the Police? by Urban Institute, February, 2017
"27.8% of respondents agreed/strongly agreed that police almost always behave according to the law. Approximately one-third agreed or strongly agreed that police stand up for values that are important to them and often arrest people for no good reason."
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Police and Policing Practices Civil Rights
Community Impact Crime and Crime Rates Data Collection
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Prison: Evidence of its use and over-use from around the world by Institute for Criminal Policy Research, March, 2017
"Whether you would end up in prison is also affected by who you are. For example, Roma people make up around 40% of Hungary's prison population, despite representing only 6% of the national population."
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International Incarceration Comparisons Data Collection
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Ohio's Statehouse-to-Prison Pipeline: 131st General Assembly (2015-2016) by ACLU of Ohio, March, 2017
"These laws often use incarceration to address public health issues like addiction, mental health, and poverty, which only serves to exacerbate those problems." (The ACLU of Ohio reviewed all 1,004 bills introduced during the 2015-2016 legislative session and found nearly one in 10 included language to lock more people up longer.)
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Sentencing Policy Community Impact
Crime and Crime Rates Data Collection
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Women Injustice: Gender and the Pathway to Jail in New York City by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Prisoner Reentry Institute, 2015
"Only 12% to 15% of the average daily population of women at Rikers have been sentenced to jail, as most are detained on pending cases." See similar reports about:
Women Jails
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Breaking Down the Walls: Lessons Learned From Successful State Campaigns to Close Youth Prisons by Youth First Initiative, March, 2017
"No state has completely dismantled the youth prison model that has been the signature feature of juvenile justice since the early 1800s. Yet, successful campaigns have resulted in the closure of dozens of youth prisons in all regions of the country."
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Juveniles
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Food for thought: Prison food is a public health problem
We've all heard stories about how terrible the food in prison can be, but as our Policy Analyst Wendy Sawyer explains in her recent blog post, there are broader public health concerns involved when we give incarcerated people bad food. Check it out here.
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