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Show Me the Data!
As the Biden administration begins to implement its criminal justice reform goals, experts say that access to timely and accurate data...
Local Spending on Jails Tops $25 Billion
Jail costs rose even as crime and admissions to jail fell. As of the end of 2017: A 20% decrease in crime and a 19% drop in jail...
Jails and prisons are virus hot spots, but politics could slow efforts to inoculate their residents.
The Freakout About Giving COVID Vaccines to Prisoners Has Already Begun Toward the end of a press conference on Tuesday afternoon,...
Why protecting prisons from COVID-19 is everyone’s problem
The COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the United States has raged with particular ferocity inside prisons and jails. Such facilities...
States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By Covid-19
States and counties are finding it hard to keep jails and prisons open as the virus ravages both prisoners and staff members. But...
Virus cases in US prisons and jails surpass 500,000
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/04/world/covid-19-coronavirus/virus-cases-in-us-jails-and-prisons-surpass-500000 The number of...
CDC MMWR ---- COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities — United States, February–April 2020
CDC MMWR ---- COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention Facilities — United States, February–April 2020 Prompt identification of persons...
Prisons are “in no way equipped” to deal with COVID-19....from the Lancet
From The Lancet: Prisons are "in no way equipped" to deal with COVID-19 "We will probably never know the extent to which coronavirus...
CDC: Interim Guidance on Management of COVID-19 in Correctional and Detention
Interim Guidance on Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Correctional and Detention Facilities...
How Should Prisons and Jails Prepare for COVID-19?
Prisons and jails are confronted with unique challenges as they work to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 for incarcerated people and...
4 ways to protect our jails and prisons from coronavirus
We must integrate our nation’s 5,000 jails, prisons and immigration detention centers with our pandemic response efforts....
‘Structural Racism’ Cripples NY Parole System: Study
African Americans are returned to New York State prisons for “technical violations” of parole at five times the rate of whites, and ...
When Purell is Contraband, How Do YouContain Coronavirus?
Handwashing and sanitizers may make people on the outside safer. But in prison it can be impossible to follow public health advice....
Suspend or Terminate Medicaid Upon Incarceration?
A new report by OPEN MINDS, State Policy On Medicaid Benefits For State Prison Inmates: A State-By-State Review, found that 42 states...
The Long Journey to Visit a Family Member in Prison
The Long Journey to Visit a Family Member in Prison Remote prison towns and strict visitation policies make it hard to stay in touch. The...
Model Practices for Parents in Prisons and Jails: Reducing Barriers to Family Connections
Recent studies have found that 2.7 million children in the United States have a parent serving time in prison or jail at any given time,...
NYC's Progress on criminal justice reform:
New York City is making monumental progress on criminal justice reform — but our efforts must go further than just reducing the number of...
How the Prison System Creates ‘Absentee Dads’—and Hurts the Kids They Leave Behind
In America, one out of five young adults have had a parent spend time behind bars. https://thecrimereport.org/2019/10/17/how-the-prison-s...
What Follows Punishment?
Data shows that community-support circles decrease rates of sex-offender recidivism. One program may lead the way when it comes to...
Immigration and Recidivism: What Is the Link?
Immigrants who committed felonies are less likely to commit another crime than native born Florida State University study MiamiHerald...
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