We've updated the research clearinghouse with 15 new reports:

• Fewer Prisoners, Less Crime: A Tale of Three States by The Sentencing Project, July, 2014
  "Studies consistently find that expediting prisoners' release from prison has no or minimal impact on recidivism rates." See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Recidivism and Reentry
• Safely Home by Youth Advocate Programs, June, 2014
  "Community-based programs yield better results for kids than incarceration and can be implemented without spending any new money." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Female Realignment Report: An Examination of Female Offenders Released from State Prison in the First Year of Public Safety Realignment by California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, May, 2014
  "...data shows that there is very little difference between female offenders and their outcomes following release after completing their State prison term pre- and post-Realignment" See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Recidivism and Reentry
• CRIPA Investigation of the NYC Department of Correction Jails on Rikers Island by Department of Justice, August, 2014
  "We conclude that there is a pattern and practice of conduct at Rikers that violates the constitutional rights of adolescent inmates." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Medicaid Prior Authorization Policies and Imprisonment Among Patients With Schizophrenia by American Journal of Managed Care, July, 2014
  "As the total costs in the United States that are associated with severe psychiatric disorders in jails are very high, new policies on how to treat incarcerated individuals with schizophrenia, particularly nonviolent offenders, are warranted." See similar reports about:
  Mental Health
• Jails in Indian Country, 2013 by Bureau of Justice Statistics, July, 2014
  "Since 2010, about 31% of inmates held in Indian country jails have been confined for a violent offense, a decline from about 39% in each year between midyear 2004 and 2009." See similar reports about:
  Jails
• Incarceration of a Household Member and Hispanic Health Disparities: Childhood Exposure and Adult Chronic Disease Risk Behaviors by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May, 2013
  "If the escalation of incarceration continues through the early years of this century, its public health effect will continue to grow as the children of those prisoners or former prisoners reach adulthood." See similar reports about:
  Families
• The High Costs of Low Risk: The Crisis of America's Aging Prison Population by The Osborne Association, July, 2014
  "...at present, twenty-eight states hold more than 1,000 older prisoners, up from just two states in 1990." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Barriers to Recreation at Rikers Island's Central Punitive Segregation Unit by New York City Board of Corrections, July, 2014
  "...while the CPSU population hovers around 400 people, fewer than 40 prisoners are experiencing the mandated hour outside their solitary confinement cells on an average day." See similar reports about:
  Prison Procedures
• State Prison Health Care Spending: An Examination of Female Offenders Released from State Prison in the First Year of Public Safety Realignment by Pew Charitable Trusts, July, 2014
  "In fiscal 2011, states spent a total of $7.7 billion on correctional health care—likely about a fifth of overall prison expenditures." See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Operation Ghetto Storm by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, April, 2013
  "There is no centralized database that keeps track of extrajudicial killings by police... With no numbers, there can be no studies, no analysis of trends and no accountability." See similar reports about:
  Civil Rights Community Impact
• The Color of Corporate Corrections, part two: Contractual Exemptions and the Overrepresentation of People of Color in Private Prisons by Radical Criminology, January, 2014
  "Health—and therefore age—tends to serve as a proxy for race without any explicit reference to it." See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization
• Juveniles in Residential Placement, 2011 by Department of Justice, August, 2014
  "The number of delinquents held in placement increased 4% between 1997 and 1999 and then decreased 43% to its lowest level in 2011." See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• The Debt Penalty: Exposing the financial barriers to offender reintegration by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, August, 2014
  "Paradoxically, criminal justice systems sometimes spend more on debt collection and punishing offenders who are behind on their payments than they are likely to recoup from enforcing the financial obligations of ex-offenders." See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Managing Drug-Involved Offenders by Department of Justice, July, 2014
  "Drug courts, which also mandate drug treatment but under judicial supervision, have demonstrated better outcomes than standard treatment diversion programs." See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy

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