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  • Setting Bail to Fail: The Gap Between Bail Reform's Goals and Reality (New York) Scrutinize, January, 2025“Our analysis shows that judges followed rules requiring specific bail options but often set amounts that undermined the statutory intent to provide affordable alternatives, particularly to commercial bonds.”
  • (New) Expanding Alternatives to Incarceration in NYC: A Pathway to Safely Closing Rikers Island New York City Alternatives to Incarceration (ATI) and Reentry Coalition, January, 2025“Expanded application of ATls alone will not fully decarcerate Rikers. The City must also...fully implement its 6-A Work Release program and empower the Local Conditional Release Commission to use their authority to release eligible individuals.”
  • (New) Four Decades of Law Enforcement in New York State: Changing Arrest, Prosecution, and Sentencing Trends, 1980-2023 Data Collaborative for Justice, December, 2024“After adjusting for population declines outside NYC, misdemeanor arrest rates per 100,000 people in the suburbs and upstate increased from 1980 to 1990 and then declined throughout nearly all of the remaining 34 years examined.”
  • 1000 Freed and Counting: 2018-2024 Bond Report Envision Freedom Fund, December, 2024“In New York, [bond] amounts are higher than ever: Immigration judges in the state currently set the majority of bonds at $10,000 or more, making them the highest in the country.”
  • Food and Nutrition in New York State Correctional Facilities Correctional Association of New York, November, 2024“Among those who expressed concerns about the quality of the food served at the mess hall, many raised concerns about food safety or food preparation. Individuals also often characterized the food as unpalatable and expressed a strong aversion to it.”
  • Failure to Appear Across New York Regions Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College, June, 2024“In 2022, NY's failure to appear (FTA) rate for released cases was 17%. There was little variation by region (16% in NYC, 18% in NYC suburbs, 20% in Upstate). However, among individual counties... FTA rates ranged from 7% to 30%.”
  • Misdemeanor Enforcement Trends in New York City, 2016-2022 Brennan Center for Justice, March, 2024“In 2021 and 2022, approximately half of all minor offense cases were dismissed. Overall, the proportion of non-convictions increased steadily from 47% in 2016 to 70% in 2022.”
  • Evaluating the Impact of Desk Appearance Ticket Reform in New York State Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College, February, 2024“Desk Appearance Tickets (DATs) in New York State led more people charged with low-level offenses to avoid pre-arraignment detention, but varied by region. Statewide DAT issuance increased from 38% in 2019 to 58% in 2021, then declined to 50% in 2022.”
  • Evaluating Bail Reform in New York's Justice Courts The John F. Finn Institute for Public Safety, January, 2024“In cases targeted by bail reform, sentence severity declined. Among misdemeanors resulting in conviction, jail sentences declined from 11% in 2018 to 6% in 2021.”
  • Participation and Outcomes in SUNY College-in-Prison Programs Office of Higher Education in Prison, State University of New York, November, 2023“After falling 55 percent in 2020-2021 from their peak in 2018-2019, total credits earned by incarcerated students were 23 percent below their pre-pandemic level in 2021-2022.”
  • Reducing Multigenerational Poverty in New York Through Sentencing Reform Jared Trujillo, November, 2023“New York led the national charge in enacting harsh sentencing laws, while simultaneously shrinking its social safety net.”
  • "Smoke Screen": Experience with the Incarcerated Grievance Program in New York State Prisons Correctional Association of New York, October, 2023“The survey data confirms that the IGP [incarcerated grievance program] is heavily used and seen as vital by the incarcerated population, even as it fails to provide recourse.”
  • Examining the System-Wide Effect of Eliminating Bail in New York City: A Controlled-Interrupted Time Series Study Data Collaborative for Justice, October, 2023“We found that eliminating discretion to set bail for select charges, mostly misdemeanors and non-violent felonies, was not associated with a system-wide change in either two-year or pretrial recidivism in either direction.”
  • The State of New York City Jails: One Year of Measuring Jail Operations and Management on the Comptroller's DOC Dashboard Office of the New York City Comptroller, August, 2023“The share of incarcerated people [in NYC jails] with a serious mental illness increased 2% since August 2022, with the number of individuals nearly doubling since 2020, from 672 to 1,207.”
  • Trends in the New York State Prison Population, 2008-2023 Data Collaborative for Justice, July, 2023“The percentage indicted in the 5 boroughs of New York City decreased from 51% in 2008 to 38% in 2023...[and] a higher percentage of the prison population was indicted in upstate counties with major urban centers and rural upstate counties.”
  • Criminal Convictions in New York State, 1980-2021 Becca Cadoff et al., Data Collaborative for Justice, May, 2023“Relative to their representation in the residential population, the conviction rate in 2019 for Black people statewide was 3.1 times higher than for white people.”
  • Cost of Discretion: Judicial Decision-Making, Pretrial Detention, and Public Safety in New York City Scrutinize, QSIDE Institute, and NYU School of Law, May, 2023“The estimated impact of these judges' disproportionately carceral decisions over 2.5 years amounts to 580 additional people detained, 154 additional years of pretrial detention, and over $77 million of additional costs borne by New York City taxpayers.”
  • Sentencing Reform for Criminalized Survivors: Learning from New York's Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act Sentencing Project and Survivors Justice Project, April, 2023“Since its passage, the Domestic Violence Survivors Justice Act (DVSJA) has freed people who otherwise would have spent considerably more time behind bars, but compromises...have limited its impact.”
  • Neighborhood Incarceration Rates and Adverse Birth Outcomes in New York City, 2010-2014 Louisa W. Holaday et al, March, 2023“In all models, as neighborhood incarceration rate increased, there was an increased incidence rate ratio of preterm birth [and an increased IRR of low birth weight].”
  • Does New York's Bail Reform Law Impact Recidivism? A Quasi-Experimental Test in New York City Data Collaborative for Justice at John Jay College, March, 2023“The results indicate that bail reform's mandatory release provisions significantly reduced two-year re-arrest rates for any charge (44% vs. 50%) and for a felony (24% vs. 27%).”
  • A Racial Disparity Across New York That Is Truly Jarring New York Civil Liberties Union, December, 2022“In Manhattan -- one of the wealthiest and least equal places in the country -- courts convicted Black people of felonies and misdemeanors at a rate 21 times greater than that of white people over the past two decades.”
  • Casting Out from the Inside: Abolishing Felony Disenfranchisement in New York Elizabeth Neuland, December, 2022“Felony disenfranchisement stands in stark opposition to rehabilitation because it alienates individuals from the very communities to which DOCCS is taking great measures to help them to return.”
  • Racial Disparities in the Administration of Discipline in New York State Prisons State of New York Offices of the Inspector General, November, 2022“Of DOCCS employees who issued 50 or more Misbehavior Reports during the period reviewed, 226 employees issued them to only non-White incarcerated individuals, including 114 employees who issued them to only Black or Hispanic incarcerated individuals.”
  • First Report of the Task Force on Issues Faced by TGNCNBI People in Custody Task Force on Issues Faced by TGNCNBI People in Custody, August, 2022(This report details findings and recommendations of the Task Force on Issues Faced by Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming, Non-Binary, and Intersex (TGNCNBI) People in Custody, created to assess conditions and policies in New York City jails.)
  • Cruel and Usual: Contaminated Water in New York State Prisons Shannon Haupt and Phil Miller, July, 2022“The lack of thorough and consistent testing of water quality in prisons, [and] significant obstructions of due process for incarcerated people who raise complaints about the water, allows prisons to minimize and deny any presence of contaminated water.”

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