We've added 12 new reports to the research clearinghouse:

• Prisoners in 2014 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2015
  "The number of prisoners held by state and federal correctional authorities on December 31, 2014 (1,561,500) decreased by 15,400 (down 1%) from yearend 2013." See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Crime in the United States - 2014 by Federal Bureau of Investigation, September, 2015
  "The violent crime rate declined 1.0 percent compared to the 2013 rate, and the property crime rate declined 5.0 percent." See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• World Female Imprisonment List: Third Edition by World Prison Brief; Institute for Criminal Policy Research, September, 2015
  "This report shows that 700,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions throughout the world, either as pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners or having been convicted and sentenced." See similar reports about:
  Women International Incarceration Comparisons
• It's Not Just Ferguson: Missouri Supreme Court Should Consolidate the Municipal Court System by Arch City Defenders, July, 2014
  (This paper examines six municipalities in St. Louis County and offers a series of reforms, including the consolidation of St. Louis County's 81 municipal courts into a single regional court system.) See similar reports about:
  Trials
• Stop and Frisk in Chicago by ACLU of Illinois, March, 2015
  "Black Chicagoans were subjected to 72% of all stops, yet constitute just 32% of the city's population." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Police and Policing Practices
• Race-Of-Victim Discrepancies in Homicides and Executions, Louisiana 1976-2015 by Loyola University of New Orleans Journal of Public Interest Law, August, 2015
  "Black male victims comprise 61% of homicide victims in present day Louisiana, yet their killers have been executed in only 3 cases out of 12,949 homicides since Gregg v Georgia reinstated the death penalty in 1976." See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty Civil Rights
• Debtors' Prisons in New Hampshire by ACLU of New Hampshire, September, 2015
  (In 2013 New Hampshire judges jailed people who were unable to pay fines and without conducting a meaningful ability-to-pay hearing in an estimated 148 cases.) See similar reports about:
  Prison and The Economy Jails Trials
• Public Safety Realignment: Impacts So Far by Public Policy Institute of California, September, 2015
  "Realignment did not increase violent crime, but auto thefts rose. Research so far shows no dramatic change in recidivism rates." See similar reports about:
  Jails Crime and Crime Rates
• Exploring the Potential for Pretrial Innovation in Massachusetts by MassINC, September, 2015
  "Since 2008, the state's pretrial population has grown by nearly 13 percent, while arrests have declined by 10 percent and the number of commitments annually to state prisons and county houses of correction has fallen by 22 percent." See similar reports about:
  Pretrial Detention
• No Hope: Re-Examining Lifetime Sentences for Juvenile Offenders by The Phillips Black Project, September, 2015
  "Nine states have abolished JLWOP after Miller, bringing the current number of jurisdictions completely banning the sentence to fifteen." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Multistate Criminal History Patterns of Prisoners Released in 30 States by Bureau of Justice Statistics, September, 2015
  "After the 5-year follow-up period, the recidivism rate based on in-state and out-of-state criminal history information (77%) was higher than the recidivism rate based on in-state criminal history information only (72%)." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry Crime and Crime Rates
• Voting While Incarcerated: A Tool Kit for Voting Rights Advocates by American Civil Liberties Union, September, 2005
  (At midyear 2004, there were close to 714,000 people detained in our nation's jails, and the majority were eligible to register and vote.) See similar reports about:
  Felon Disenfranchisement