What’s New
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No, prison gerrymandering doesn’t reallocate $1,838 per person Prison gerrymandering does not impact federal aid, “here is not a straight linear relationship between state population count and federal funds flow”.
August 22: Prisoners of the Census Blog
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It Matters If You’re Black or White: Racial Disparities in the Handling of Complaints against North Charleston Police Officers by NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
August 21: Research Clearinghouse: Civil Rights
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Incarceration Rates and Traits of Sexual Minorities in the United States: National Inmate Survey, 2011–2012 by The Williams Institute
August 21: Research Clearinghouse: Incarceration Rates Growth Causes
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Who Does Civil Asset Forfeiture Target Most?: A Review of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s Forfeiture Activities for Fiscal Year 2016 by Nevada Policy Research Institute
August 21: Research Clearinghouse: Police and Policing Practices
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Community-Based Responses to Justice-Involved Young Adults by Harvard Kennedy School & National Institute of Justice
August 21: Research Clearinghouse: Juveniles
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New report, What “Stop-and-Frisk” Really Means, argues that a return to stop-and-frisk would be a policing disaster President Trump supports stop & frisk; but Black and Latino people know from experience that the result is discriminatory use of force.
August 17: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau housekeeping risks release card protections We urge the CFPB to keep release cards in mind when revising regulations so they don’t unintentionally undermine their own reforms.
August 15: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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Seizing Chicago: Drug stings and asset forfeiture target the poor Instead of protecting Chicago’s communities, state asset forfeiture practices and drug stings set up by federal agents target low-income, Black, and Latino residents, setting them up to fail.
August 11: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
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Voices that matter: Incarcerated people on video calling If policymakers are legitimately concerned about making the transition out of correctional facilities as smooth as possible, they must incorporate the visitation-related concerns of incarcerated people. This post examines a few of those important concerns.
August 9: Prison Policy Initiative Blog
Featured report
What “Stop-and-Frisk” Really Means: Discrimination & Use of Force
Donald Trump’s presidency has heralded a return to ineffective “tough on crime” tactics, including the police practice of stop-and-frisk, but our new report finds that such a move would be disastrous for Black and Latino communities. As Rose Lenehan explains, instead of making cities safer, stop-and-frisk causes thousands of forceful and terrifying experiences with police, mostly for people of color who’ve done absolutely nothing wrong.
Unpacking mass incarceration
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Prison Gerrymandering Project
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$1/minute to talk to Dad?
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Compare your state's use of the prison to the world at large
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Just like Skype?!
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