New Research Clearinghouse updates for June 24, 2014

The Prison Policy Initiative research clearinghouse has been updated with 37 new reports:

• Cruel Confinement Abuse, Discrimination and Death Within Alabama's Prisons
  by Southern Poverty Law Center, June, 2014
  "This extraordinary understaffing has led to a multitude of problems. The vast majority are easily predictable: delays, failures to diagnose and treat problems, failure to follow up with patients, errors and decisions to not treat seriously ill prisoners."
  See similar reports about:
  Prisoner Welfare
• Ending the Drug Wars Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy
  by London School of Economics, May, 2014
  "A global system which predominantly encourages policies that transfer the costs of prohibition onto poorer producer and transit countries, as the current system does, is an ineffective and unsustainable way to control drugs in the long term."
  See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy
• Tracking State Prison Growth in 50 States
  by Prison Policy Initiative, May, 2014
  "This briefing fills the gap with a series of more than 100 graphs showing prison growth (and sometimes decline) for every state in the nation to encourage states to confront how their criminal policy choices undermine our national welfare."
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  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Breaking Down Mass Incarceration in the 2010 Census State-by-State Incarceration Rates by Race/Ethnicity
  by Prison Policy Initiative, May, 2014
  "It is imperative that we are able to measure the extent to which the criminal justice system disparately impacts our communities."
  See similar reports about:
  Community Impact Data Collection
• States of Incarceration The Global Context
  by Prison Policy Initiative, June, 2014
  "While there are certainly important differences between how U.S. states handle incarceration, placing each state in a global context reveals that incarceration policy in every region of this country is out of step with the rest of the world."
  See similar reports about:
  International Incarceration Comparisons
• Automatic Adult Prosecution of Children in Cook County, Illinois. 2010-\0xAD\0x20102012. Over 30 years of poor outcomes from "automatic" adult prosectuion of children.
  by Juvenile Justice Initiative, April, 2014
  "More than 30 years of studies have consistently demonstrated that categorical treatment of children as adults prevents rehabilitation and positive development, fails to protect public safety and yields profound racial, ethnic and geographic disparities."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Max Out The Rise in Prison Inmates Released Without Supervision
  by Pew Charitable Trusts, June, 2014
  "a large and increasing number of offenders are maxing out\0xFFFD\0xFFFD"serving their entire sentences behind bars\0xFFFD\0xFFFD"and returning to their communities without supervision or support."
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  Recidivism and Reentry
• Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Justice System
  by Sentencing Project, May, 2014
  "juvenile justice systems are marked by disparate racial outcomes at every stage of the process, starting with more frequent arrests for youth of color and ending with more frequent secure placement."
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  Juveniles
• The School Discipline Consensus Report Strategies from the Field to Keep Students Engaged In School and Out of the Juvenile Justice System
  by The Council of State Governments Justice Center, June, 2014
  ""The juvenile justice system does not have the tools or resources to respond to the needs of many youth coming thorugh its doors for minor school-based offenses."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Inside Out Questionable and Abusive Practices in New Jersey's Bail-Bond Industry
  by State of New Jersey Commission of Investigation, May, 2014
  "The result is a disorderly process driven by private profit rather than public interest and one that is dangerously out of balance when it comes to both the rights of the defendents and the requirements of the criminal justice system."
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  Pretrial Detention
• Key Factors in California's Jail Construction Needs
  by Public Policy Institute of California, May, 2014
  "This report highlights two important factors in addressing jail capacity constraints: aging jail facilities and long - term needs."
  See similar reports about:
  Jails
• ADAM II 2013 Annual Report
  by Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Program II, January, 2013
  "The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring II (ADAM II) survey gathers information on drug use and related issues from booked adult male arrestees within 48 hours of their arrest ."
  See similar reports about:
  Drug Policy
• Closing Massachusetts' Training Schools Reflections Forty Years Later
  by The Annie E. Clark Foundation, June, 2014
  "...a quiet revolution has begun sweeping through our nation's juvenile justice systems... states across the country have begun shuttering juvenile corrections facilities and dramatically reducing the population of young people incarcerated."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• World Pre-trial/Remand Imprisonment List Pre-trail detainees and other remand prisoners in all five continents
  by International Centre for Prison Studies, January, 2008
  "..this List refers to those persons who, in connection with an alleged offence or offences, are deprived of their liberty following a judicial or other legal process but have not been definitively sentenced by a court for the offence(s)."
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  Pretrial Detention
• World Female Imprisonment List 2nd Edition Women and girls in penal institutions, including pre-trial detainees/remand prisoners
  by International Centre for Prison Studies, August, 2012
  "More than 625,000 women and girls are held in penal institutions throughout the world,"
  See similar reports about:
  Women
• A New Approach to Reducing Incarceration While Maintaining Low Rates of Crime
  by The Hamilton Project, May, 2014
  "What alternative policy options could we pursue in conjunction with scaling back incarceration rates that would reduce the social costs of incarceration while controlling crime?"
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  Prison and The Economy Sentencing Policy
• Nation Behind Bars a human rights solution
  by Human Rights Watch, May, 2014
  "The momentum for sentencing reform is welcome for all who care about the fair use of government's power to determine what conduct to criminalize and what sanctions to impose on those who break the law."
  See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy Prisoner Welfare
• The Growth of Incarceration in the United States Exploring causes and consequences
  by National Research Council., 2014
  "The study assesses the evidence and its implications for public policy to inform an extensive and thoughtful public debate about and reconsideration of policies."
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  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
• Collatoral Costs Racial Disparities and Injustice in Minnesota's Marijuana Laws
  by Minnesota 2020, April, 2014
  "...blacks in Minnesota were 6.4 times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession \0xFFFD\0xFFFD" over two times the national average."
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  Drug Policy
• Youth Behind Bars Examining the impact of prosecuting and incarcerating kids in Michigan's criminal justice system
  by Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency, May, 2014
  "...Michigan broadened juvenile prosecutors' discretion to automatically file in criminal court, expanded the number of juvenile offenses requiring an adult sentence, and allowed children of any age to be criminally convicted and sent to prison."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Collatoral Damage A Roadmap to Restore Rights and Status After Arrest or Conviction
  by National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, May, 2014
  "NACDL recommends a broad national initiative to construct a legal infrastructure that will provide individuals with a criminal record with a clear path to equal opportunity."
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  Civil Rights Recidivism and Reentry
• Reducing Recidivism States Deliver Results
  by The Council of State Governments Justice Center and the National Reentry Resource Center, June, 2014
  "This report focuses on statewide recidivism data for adults released in 2007 and 2010 with a three- year follow-up period, offering a current snapshot of criminal justice outcomes in these states."
  See similar reports about:
  Recidivism and Reentry
• Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2013
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics, June, 2014
  "Presents data on crime and safety at school from the perspectives of students, teachers, and principals."
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  Juveniles
• Tinkering with Life A Look at the Inappropriateness of of Life Without Parole as an Alternative to the Death Penalty
  by The Sentencing Project, January, 2013
  "LWOP is often touted as the humane alternative to the death pen- alty, yet many of the problematic aspects of the death penalty are also applicable to this sentence."
  See similar reports about:
  Sentencing Policy
• Too Good to be True Private Prisons in America
  by The Sentencing Project, January, 2012
  "The available data belies the oft-claimed economic benefits of private contracting, and points to the practice being an unreliable approach toward financial stability."
  See similar reports about:
  Prison Privatization
• Mississippi's 2014 Corrections and Criminal Justice Reform
  by Pew's Public Safety Performance Project, May, 2014
  "...nonviolent offenders and those revoked for probation or parole violations accounted for a large and growing share of Mississippi's prison population."
  See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes Sentencing Policy
• Capital City Correction Reforming DC's Use of Adult Incarceration Against Youth
  by DC Lawyers for Youth, Campaign for Youth Justice, May, 2014
  "DC continues this practice of prosecuting, detaining, and incarcerating youth in the adult system despite the fact that research consistently finds that adult prosecution of youth does not effectively deter crime."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles
• Warehoused and Forgotten Immigrants Trapped in Our Shadow Private Prison System
  by American Civil Liberties Union, June, 2014
  "Nationwide, more than half of all federal criminal prosecutions initiated in fiscal year 2013 were for unlawfully crossing the border into the United States"
  See similar reports about:
  Immigration Detainees
• Measuring Juvenile Recidivism Data collection and reporting practices in juvenile corrections
  by Pew's Public Safety Performance Project, May, 2014
  "...a recent survey of these agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia found that 1 in 4 does not regularly collect and report recidivism data, and fewer than half use measures that provide a comprehensive picture of youth reoffending."
  See similar reports about:
  Juveniles Data Collection
• Mandatory Reentry Supervision Evaluating the Kentucky Experience
  by Pew's Public Safety Performance Project, June, 2014
  "Inmates released to supervision under the policy had 30 percent fewer returns to prison for a new crime and 11 percent fewer violations of their supervision rules than the pre-policy group."
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  Recidivism and Reentry
• Recidivism Among Offenders Receiving Retroactive Sentence Reductions The 2007 Crack Cocaine Amendment
  by United States Sentencing Commission, May, 2014
  "This publication reports on recidivism of crack cocaine offenders who were released immediately before and after implementation of the 2007 Crack Cocaine Amendment, and followed in the community for five years."
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  Recidivism and Reentry Drug Policy
• Justice in Washing State Survey, 2012 Revised and Updated 2014
  by The Washington State Minority Health Commission, The Washington State Center for Court Research, 2014
  "When we asked about their personal encounters with police officers and the courts, we found substantial differences between Whites and African Americans in terms of the frequency of negative encounters."
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  Community Impact Civil Rights
• Seasonal Patterns in Criminal Victimization Trends
  by Bureau of Justice Statistics, June, 2014
  "This report examines seasonal patterns in violent and household property victimization in the United States from 1993 to 2010."
  See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Report on the Continuing Impact of United States v. Booker on Federal Sentences
  by United States Sentencing Commission, December, 2012
  "This report assesses the continuing impact on the federal sentencing system of the Supreme Court's 2005 opinion in United States v. Booker, which rendered the sentencing guidelines advisory."
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  Sentencing Policy
• Irreversible Error Recommended Reforms for Preventing and Correcting Errors in the Administration of Capital Punishment
  by The Constitution Project, May, 2014
  "...the system must be willing to acknowledge errors that could result in the execution of an innocent person . Each jurisdiction should adopt legislation that sets standards to facilitate the review of credible post-conviction claims of innocence."
  See similar reports about:
  Death Penalty
• 2008 Court Commitments to the Massachusetts Department of Correction
  by Massachusetts Department of Correction, June, 2009
  (Inmates were committed for the following categories of offenses during 2008: Drug (31%), Person (30%), "Other" (16%), Property (16%), and Sex (6%).
  ) See similar reports about:
  Crime and Crime Rates
• Prison Population Trends 2012
  by Massachusetts Department of Correction, May, 2013
  "The intent of this report is to provide a comprehensive overview of inmate statistics specific to CY2012 as well as trends over the last five to ten years."
  See similar reports about:
  Incarceration Rates Growth Causes

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