This brief explores children’s behaviors when a father is incarcerated and when the father is released, examining whether the negative child outcomes ...
Risk assessment instruments figure prominently in current criminal justice reforms, but their use is controversial. The principal concern is that bene...
The past several years have seen a surge of interest in using risk assessment in criminal sentencing, both to reduce recidivism and to reduce prison p...
This publication from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) identifies five evidence-based principles guiding federal efforts to improve the correction...
Advocates and legislators across the political spectrum celebrated the passage of the First Step Act in December of 2018, the first large federal pris...
This report from the Vera Institute of Justice is a summary of the Pell Reinstatement regulations and requirements developed by the U.S. Department of...
By CSG Justice Center StaffByron Davis used the end of his sentence in Limestone Correctional Facility near Huntsville, Alabama, to get ready for his ...