We've The Prison Policy Initiative has added 22 new reports to the research library:

• The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting: A Case Study in Safely Reducing Long Prison Terms and Saving Taxpayer Dollars by Justice Policy Institute, November, 2018
  "The experience of the Unger group, with 188 people who were incarcerated for decades for serious violent crimes having been safely released to the community, demonstrates that this country locks up too many people for too long." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Eight Keys to Mercy: How to shorten excessive prison sentences by Prison Policy Initiative, November, 2018
  This report provides state leaders with eight strategies to shorten overly long prison sentences. Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices Probation and parole
• Women's Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2018 by Prison Policy Initiative, November, 2018
  "Women's incarceration has grown at twice the pace of men's incarceration in recent decades, and has disproportionately been located in local jails." Categories: Women
• Contacts Between Police and the Public, 2015 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, October, 2018
  When police initiated the contact, black and Hispanic residents were more likely to experience the threat or use of physical force than white residents. Categories: Police and Policing
• Under Pressure: How fines and fees hurt people, undermine public safety, and drive Alabama's racial wealth divide by Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, October, 2018
  83% of people surveyed gave up necessities like rent, food, medical bills, car payments, and child support, in order to pay down their court debt. Categories: Poverty and wealth
• Expanding the Vote: Two Decades of Felony Disenfranchisement Reform by Sentencing Project, October, 2018
  "More than 6 million citizens will be ineligible to vote in the midterm elections in November 2018 because of a felony conviction." Categories: Felon Disenfranchisement
• Philadelphia Bail Watch Report Findings and Recommendations based on 611 Bail Hearings by Philadelphia Bail Fund & Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, October, 2018
  "Philadelphia's preliminary arraignment system disadvantages individuals charged with crimes and, as a result, threatens one of the most sacred principles in our nation's criminal justice system: a person is innocent until proven guilty" Categories: Poverty and wealth
• Money for Communities, Not Cages: The Case for Reducing the Cook County Sheriff's Jail Budget by Chicago Community Bond Fund, October, 2018
  "By re-allocating money from reactionary corrections programs to proactive and preventative community services, Cook County can begin to effectively invest in the communities and people previously neglected and criminalized." Categories: Economics of Incarceration
• Getting Back on Course: Educational exclusion and attainment among formerly incarcerated people by Prison Policy Initiative, October, 2018
  "This report reveals that formerly incarcerated people are often relegated to the lowest rungs of the educational ladder." Categories: Education
• A Failure in the Fourth Degree: Reforming the State Jail Felony System in Texas by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, October, 2018
  "This report demonstrates through data and personal interviews with 140 incarcerated individuals the defective nature of Texas' state jail system, and it puts forth actionable policy recommendations for consideration by the 2019 Texas Legislature" Categories: Jails
• Out of Sight: LGBTQ Youth and Adults in Texas' Justice Systems by Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, October, 2018
  "LGBTQ people are more likely to experience abuse and harassment by staff and others in the correctional facility, improper placement and solitary confinement, and denial of health care and programming." Categories: LGBT
• Diversion from Justice: A Rights-Based Analysis of Local "Prostitution Diversion Programs" and their Impacts on People in the Sex Sector in the United States by Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health, September, 2018
  "While progressive at face value, prostitution diversion programs lack the evidence base and public accountability mechanisms to support their claims of doing good in the lives of people selling sex." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• Un-Meetable Promises: Rhetoric and Reality in New York City's Human Trafficking Intervention Courts by Global Health Justice Partnership of the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health, September, 2018
  Embedding social services in a criminal justice context enables an overreach by the courts as gatekeepers and managers of service; mitigating immediate harms to sex workers requires shrinking (not expanding) the authority of the courts over defendant. Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• The Color of Youth Transferred to the Adult Criminal Justice System: Policy & Practice Recommendations by Campaign for Youth Justice, September, 2018
  Black youth are disproportionately sent to adult court by judges at some of the highest percentages seen in 30 years. Categories: Race and ethnicity Youth
• Mandatory Minimum Penalties for Federal Identity Theft Offenses in the Federal Criminal Justice System by U.S. Sentencing Commission, September, 2018
  Section 1028A convictions have increased both as a number and as a percentage of cases involving a mandatory minimum penalty since the Commission began collecting data on these offenses. Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• The High Costs of Low Risk: The Crisis of America's Aging Prison Population by The Osborne Association, May, 2018
  Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices Health impact
• Electronic Monitoring of Youth in the California Juvenile Justice System by UC Berkeley School of Law, July, 2017
  "The report demonstrates electronic monitoring programs can impose dozens of strict and inflexible rules on participants. Financial burdens imposed by electronic monitoring programs disproportionately hurt low-income families." Categories: Youth
• Model Penal Code: Sentencing, Proposed Final Draft by The American Law Institute, June, 2017
  The Model Penal Code provides guidance on some of the most important issues that courts, corrections systems, and policymakers are facing today. Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices
• The Continuing Leverage of Releasing Authorities: Findings from a National Survey: Executive Summary by Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, October, 2016
  "Releasing authorities continue to retain significant and unrecognized clout in their decision-making. Their practices and policies impact the achievement of the criminal justice system's fundamental goals: fairness, offender rehabilitation, and safety." Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices Probation and parole
• Improving Parole Release in America by Edward E. Rhine, Joan Petersilia, and Kevin R. Reitz, January, 2016
  "This article lays out a ten-point program for the improve-ment of discretionary parole-release systems in America." Categories: Probation and parole
• Making Sense of Sentencing State Systems and Policies by National Conference of State Legislatures, June, 2015
  This report summarizes states' criminal codes and sentencing systems. Categories: Sentencing Policy and Practices Probation and parole
• Defendants Whose Death Sentences Have Been Reduced Because of a Finding of "Mental Retardation" since Atkins v. Virginia by Death Penalty Information Center, July, 2012
  "The authors found that states that significantly deviated from accepted clinical methods for determining intellectual disability, such as Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Texas, had the lowest success rates." Categories: Death Penalty