Historical Corrections Statistics in the US 1850-1984, DOJ BJS, 1986 U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850-1984 U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics Historical Corrections Statistics in the United States, 1850- 1984 BY Margaret Werner Cahalan with the assistance …

IA Prison Population Forecast 2015-2025, Department of Human Rights, 2016 The Correctional Policy Project: Iowa Prison Population Forecast FY 2015-FY 2025 January 1, 2016 Sarah Johnson, M.A., Primary Author Iowa Department of Human Rights Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning Steve Michael, Division Administrator Iowa Department of Human Rights …

In Our Own Backyard - Confronting Growth & Disparities, Vera Institute of Justice, 2015 In Our Own Backyard: Confronting Growth and Disparities in American Jails DECEMBER 2015 Ram Subramanian • Christian Henrichson • Jacob Kang-Brown A publication of CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS Incarceration Trends a project of the Vera …

Incarceration Trends - Historical Jail Populations 1970-2014, Vera Institute of Justice, 2015 CENTER ON SENTENCING AND CORRECTIONS Incarceration Trends: Data and Methods for Historical Jail Populations in U.S. Counties, 1970-2014 Jacob Kang-Brown Vera Institute of Justice December 2015 © 2015 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Additional copies can …

Report & Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing, DOJ, 2016 U.S. Department of Justice Report and Recommendations Concerning the Use of Restrictive Housing FINAL REPORT January 2016 Table of Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 1 Overview of Restrictive Housing ............................................................................................................. 3 Subcategories of Restrictive Housing ...................................................................................................... 3 A Short History of …

Risk Assessment Instruments in Correctional Settings, Council of State Governments Justice Center, 2013 ! Risk!Assessment!Instruments!Validated!and!Implemented!in!Correctional!Settings!in!the!United! States:!!! An!Empirical!Guide!! ! An#executive#summary#drawn#from#Sarah#L.#Desmarais#and#Jay#P.#Singh,#Instruments#for# Assessing#Recidivism#Risk:#A#Review#of#Validation#Studies#Conducted#in#the#U.S.#(New!York:# Council!of!State!Governments!Justice!Center,!2013).! INTRODUCTION! ! The!rates!of!crime,!incarceration,!and!correctional!supervision!are!disproportionately! high!in!the!U.S.!and!translate!into!exorbitant!costs!to!individuals,!the!public,!and!the!state.! Within!three!years!of!release!from!jail!or!prison,!twoSthirds!of!offenders!are!rearrested!and!half! are!incarcerated!for!a!new!crime!or!parole!violation.1!Though!many!offenders!recidivate,!a! considerable!proportion!do!not.!Thus,!there!is!a!need!to!identify!those!offenders!at!greater!risk! of!recidivism!and!to!allocate!resources!and!target!risk!management!and!rehabilitation!efforts! accordingly.!Risk!assessment,!a!crucial!component!to!implementing!evidenceSbased!recidivism! reduction!strategies,!is!the!process!of!estimating!the!likelihood!an!offender!will!recidivate!by! identifying!those!offenders!at!higher!risk!and!in!greater!need!of!interventions.!Assessment! results,!based!on!ratings!of!empirically!or!theoretically!based!risk!and/or!protective!factors,!can! be!used!to!determine!intervention!targets,!appropriate!programming!level!and!intensity,!and! supervision!level.!There!is!overwhelming!evidence!to!suggest!that!assessments!of!risk! completed!using!structured!approaches!produce!estimates!that!are!both!more!accurate!and! more!consistent!across!assessors!compared!to!subjective!or!unstructured!approaches.2!More! and!more,!structured!risk!assessment!approaches!are!being!used!in!correctional!agencies.3! ! The!nearly!100Syear!history!of!risk!assessment!instrument!development!has!been! documented!on!several!occasions.4!The!focus!and!structure!of!risk!assessment!tools!have! shifted!significantly!over!time.!Studies!have!identified!the!important!evolution!of!risk! assessment!and!predictability!of!criminal!behavior,*!from!Burgess’!(1928)5!seminal!work!on!the! application!of!a!systemized!prediction!methodology!through!the!progression!of!the!four!distinct! generations!summarized!below.!! ! ! The!first!generation!of!risk!assessment!is!best!described!as!unstructured!professional! judgment,!in!which!the!assessor!relies!on!his!or!her!professional!training!and!information! gathered!from!the!incarcerated!individual,!official!records,!or!other!sources!to!inform!his!or!her! …

Sentencing, Recidivism & the Positive Impact of Successful Reentry, Governor's Public Safety Summit, 2014 Sentencing, Recidivism, and the Positive Impact of Successful Reentry Agenda • Governor’s Task Force on Sentencing and Recidivism • Tennessee Trends • Sentencing • Recidivism • Reentry • Going Forward Governor’s Task Force on Sentencing and …

Defence Counsel in Criminal Cases, DOJ BJS, 2000 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report November 2000, NCJ 179023 Defense Counsel in Criminal Cases By Caroline Wolf Harlow, Ph.D. BJS Statistician Almost all persons charged with a felony in Federal and large State …

Immigration Offenders in Federal Criminal Justice System, DOJ BJS, 2000 U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Revised 10/23/02, th Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report August 2002, NCJ 191745 Federal Justice Statistics Program Immigration Offenders in the Federal Criminal Justice System, 2000 John Scalia Marika F. X. Litras, …

Criminalization of Homeless in US Report, NLCHP NCH, 2009 Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities A Report by The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless July 2009 ABOUT THE NATIONAL LAW CENTER ON HOMELESSNESS & POVERTY The National …

The Changing Racial Composition of Three State Prison Systems, Justice Center Analysis, 2015 March 2015 In Brief: Examining the Changing Racial Composition of Three States’ Prison Populations T he National Research Council’s 2014 report, The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring the Causes and Consequences, highlighted how the …

Fact Sheet Global Incarceration Rates, US NCCD, 2006 November 2006 FACT SHEET Research from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency US Rates of Incarceration: A Global Perspective Christopher Hartney In the past 30 years, the United States has come to rely on imprisonment as its response to all types …

Book Review: Making Manna by Eric Lotke by Making Manna by Eric Lotke (Brandylane 2015) Book review by Malcolm C. Young, Attorney and Consultant Making Manna is fiction, but it tells a real story. People who have been involved in criminal justice will recognize large parts of the story from …

Michigan Law Students Compile Fifty-State and BOP Grievance Policies by Derek Gilna The Michigan Law Prison Information Project (MLPA), an organization staffed largely by law students and supervised by Professor Margo Schlanger, compiled in January 2014, an exhaustive comparison of prison grievance policies. According to that organization, "The goal of …

Staff-on-Prisoner Sexual Abuse Persists in New York Prisons by David Reutter The Second Circuit Court of Appeals held on August 11, 2015 that guards who subject prisoners to sexual fondling may violate the prisoners’ constitutional rights. The ruling came in the wake of media reports that the New York Department …

Obamacare, Universities Can Help Lower Prison Health Care Costs, Report Says by Joe Watson A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts recommends that states pursue Medicaid financing for prisoners' medical services through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as outsourcing such care to public university medical centers to …

Department of Justice Reports Third Year of Prison Population Declines by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice released a statistical report in July 2013 showing the third straight year of prisoner population declines in the United States. From year-end 2011 …

The Bureaucracy of Mercy by Why hasn’t President Obama freed more prisoners? Maybe that’s the wrong question. By Bill Keller, The Marshall Project As the two presidents, one incoming and the other outgoing, shared a limo to the inauguration in January 2009, President Bush had some advice for President-elect Obama: “Announce …

New York DOCCS Disease Control Program Problematic by Gary Hunter A study conducted by the Correctional Association (CA) of New York revealed that the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS)  is drastically deficient when it comes to identifying prisoners infected with HIV and the Hepatitis C virus …

Segregation Rate and Segregated Prisoner Suicide Rate High in Texas by Matthew Clarke By Matt Clarke At around 5.5%, the segregation rate in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) is over twice the national average of 2.7%. Segregating so many prisoners raises questions about the mental health effects of …