This fact sheet from The Pew Charitable Trusts highlights data on sentencing and corrections reforms—passed by a substantial legislative majority in 2...
Uploaded on Jun 18, 2010 A.T. Wall, director of the Rhode Island Department of Corrections, and Andres Idarraga, a student at Yale Law School who was ...
On April 24, 2013, the Council of State Governments Justice Center (CSG Justice Center) and the National Association of Counties sponsored a congressi...
A workshop, designed specifically for mentoring grantees, where speakers facilitate a discussion about developing productive relationships with correc...
States spend $50 billion a year on corrections, yet four out of ten prisoners wind up back behind bars within three years of release. In this short vi...
According to new statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics on trends in admissions to prison and releases, the majority of states reduced both ...
Using data is important to develop reentry and reinvestment strategies that will have the greatest impact on prison and jail populations despite limit...
This brief video discusses three methods to consider in selecting a comparison group for an outcome study: (1) random assignment, (2) nonequivalent co...
Approximately half of all the inmates put on parole in the U.S. end up violating the terms of their release and are sent back to prison. But across th...
A broad menu of reforms, which some localities have deemed “fair-chance” laws, incorporate “ban the box” policies, which delay inquiry into a criminal...