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Playbook for Change? States Reconsider Mandatory Sentences

This report from the Vera Institute of Justice summarizes state-level mandatory sentencing reforms since 2000, discusses their impact, and offers reco...

Correctional Populations in the United States, 2021 – Statistical Tables

This report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics summarizes data on populations super...

Laying the Groundwork: How States Can Improve Access to Continued Education for People in the Criminal Justice System

This report provides a comprehensive, state-by-state analysis of postsecondary education policy and practices.

Probation and Parole in the United States, 2013

This report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics provides a summary of the total number of adults in the United States under community supervision in...

Expanding the Vote: State Felony Disenfranchisement Reform, 1997-2023

This report provides a state-by-state accounting of the changes to voting rights for people with felony convictions and measures their impact. Since 1...

Bureau of Justice Statistics Recidivism Reports

Within the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) collects criminal history data ...

Critical Connections: Getting People Leaving Prison and Jail the Mental Health Care and Substance Use Treatment They Need—What Policymakers Need to Know about Health Care Coverage

By CSG Justice Center Staff The National Reentry Resource Center released Critical Connections, a discussion paper that identifies k...

Levers of Change in Parole Release and Revocation

Any comprehensive program to change American prison policy must focus to a significant degree on prison-release discretion, where it exists, and its r...

Recidivism of Females Released from State Prison, 2012–2017

This report from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) presents findings on recidivism of females from BJS’s study on persons released from stat...

Prisoners in 2021 – Statistical Tables

This report, from the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics is the 96th in a series that began in 19...

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