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A vast new study of recidivism by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that 44 percent of the 400,000 men and women released from state prisons in the U.S. in 2005 were arrested again during their first year of freedom. Sixty-eight percent were arrested within three years, 79 percent within six years, and 83 percent within nine years.
Solitary Housing Units (SHU) were created to discipline the most violent offenders in prison and separate them from the community, but who is really sitting in the SHU? A Vera Institute study of the units in five jurisdictions came up with some disturbing answers.
A new study by the United States Sentencing Commission found that 72.8 of federal offenders had been previously convicted, mainly for public order offenses and violent offenses.
The number of older adults in prison and jail is projected to grow to a “staggering” 400,000 people by 2030, according to a report released Thursday by the Osborne Association. The aging prison population requires a shift in how the U.S. addresses incarceration, the report says.
Colorado’s three largest cities experienced a “stark” rise in the enforcement of ordinances aimed at moving homeless individuals out of public places since 2016, according to a University of Denver study. But researchers said the state has done little to address the roots of homelessness, while increasing the burden on taxpayers.
A study issued by the National Institute of Justice found that diversion programs benefit not only prosecutors, who save time, money and resources that could be spent on more serious cases, but also defendants, who avoid conviction and re-arrest.
Profiling young Latinos as “gang members”—often with little evidence beyond a suspect tattoo— has “devastating” consequences for individuals and their communities, according to a study by the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law.
A report by the Open Society Justice Initiative calls for an international investigation of two massacres committed by drug gangs in the Mexican state of Coahuila on the U.S. border that left 450 people dead. The incidents illustrate what researchers say is a nationwide pattern of collusion between narco-cartels and corrupt authorities that has turned the U.S. closest southern neighbor into a killing ground.
The rate of growth for female incarceration has outpaced that of males by 50 percent since 1980–and over 60 percent of women in state prisons have a child under 18, according to a fact sheet released Thursday by the Sentencing Project, ahead of Mother’s Day.
A professor at the University of California Davis School of Law predicts Supreme Court justices will defend the First Amendment principles of free speech against government attempts to curb Internet abuses—even when those abuses involve promoting falsehoods online.