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Incarceration
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Criminal
Prison Policy Initiative releases new report “Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2025”
The Prison Policy Initiative, which has some of the best data visuals on incarceration level and other criminal justice metrics, today released this new report titled "Youth Confinement: The Whole…
Criminal
CSG Justice Center releases new report on “Supervision Violations and Their Impact on Incarceration”
The Council of State Governments Justice Center has produced a notable new report titled "The Supervision Violations and Their Impact on Incarceration." This CSG webpage provides this overview of the…
Sentencing Law and Policy
The Sentencing Project releases new report on "Voting From Prison: Lessons From Maine and Vermont""
The folks at The Sentencing Project released this new 36-page report about two states' experiences with in-prison voting. Here are excerpts from the report's executive symmary: Only two U.S. states…
Criminal
Is America’s incarceration rate “about to fall off a cliff”?
The question in the title of this post is prompted by this new article by Keith Humphreys in The Atlantic headlined "America’s Incarceration Rate Is About to Fall Off a…
Other
“Revisiting the Lasting Impacts of Incarceration”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper now available via SSRN and produced by multiple authors. Here is its abstract:Using newly-linked administrative and commercial data…
Sentencing Law and Policy
FWD.us releases new report on the "family tax" associated with incarceration
As reported in this new NPR piece, according "to a report released this week from FWD.us, an advocacy organization aimed at criminal justice reform, having a loved one in prison or…
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FWD.us releases new report on the “family tax” associated with incarceration
As reported in this new NPR piece, according "to a report released this week from FWD.us, an advocacy organization aimed at criminal justice reform, having a loved one in prison or…
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“Aggregation at the Bottom”
The title of this post is the title of this new paper now available via SSRN authored by Seema Saifee. Here is its abstract:Scholars and reformers who aim to reduce…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Prez Trump on social media states he has ordered federal officials to "REBUILD, AND OPEN ALCATRAZ!"
In this Truth Social post last night, Prez Donald Trump stated: "I am directing the Bureau of Prisons, together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security, to reopen…
Criminal
Any inclined to make predictions about the federal prison population — which is now at 155,399 according to BOP?
In this post four years ago as Prez Biden took over from Prez Trump, I noted that, on the the first full day of the new Biden Administration (January 21,…