Thursday, February 27 2025:

• States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2024, Prison Policy Initiative. June, 2024. "Looking at each state in the global context reveals that, in every part of the country, incarceration is out of step with the rest of the world."

Wednesday, February 26 2025:

• The Financial Consequences of Pretrial Detention, Pablo Slutzky and Sheng-Jun Xu. October, 2022. "Pretrial detention results in higher rates of household insolvency, driven by higher rates of Chapter 7 bankruptcies and judgment liens."

Tuesday, February 25 2025:

• Clemency for the Common Good: An Argument to Release Incarcerated Persons in the General Public Interest, Deborah M. Ahrens. November, 2024. "Incarcerating people often is harmful to the rest of the community, and that broad social benefit is, in and of itself, an appropriate justification for release."
• Chicago Future Fund: The Impact of Guaranteed Basic Income on the Lives of Post-incarceration Individuals, Equity and Transformation. February, 2025. "At the beginning of the program, in March 2023, 35 percent of participants reported that they had experienced homelessness the year prior. The average rate of homelessness throughout the program was 24 percent--a decrease of 11 percentage points."
• 10 ways that mass incarceration is an engine of economic injustice, Prison Policy Initiative. August, 2025. "Rather than alleviate poverty through jobs, housing, education, and healthcare, the U.S. uses criminalization to force people to comply with a deeply unequal economy."
• New research links medical copays to reduced healthcare access in prisons, Prison Policy Initiative. August, 2024. "People with chronic conditions in state prisons where copays exceed a week's wage are less likely to have seen a healthcare clinician while incarcerated than those in prisons that charge no copays or lower copay amounts."
• Research roundup: Evidence that a single day in jail causes immediate and long-lasting harms, Prison Policy Initiative. August, 2024. "We find that there is no "safe" way to jail a person, nor is there an amount of time a person can be detained without escalating short- and long-term risks to themselves and their communities."
• The relationship of social contacts with prisoners' mental health: a systematic review, N. Machado et al. September, 2024. "With respect to objective social support, in our systematic review, in-person visits were associated with increased psychological distress, including depression and anxiety, whereas support through letters and phone calls was associated with lower anxiety"
• Donald Trump can still be president , but he could be barred from being a bartender, car salesman -- or real estate developer, Prison Policy Initiative. June, 2024. "Even when jurisdictions do not explicitly ban people with felony convictions from obtaining occupational licenses, they typically give licensing agencies so much discretion that they can deter potential job-seekers with records from applying."
• An Act of Regression: Louisiana takes a giant step backward in parole and sentencing reform, Prison Policy Initiative. August, 2024. "Together, [bills HB9 and HB10] will set prison and sentencing reform back decades in the state: although lawmakers have framed them as "public safety" measures, these laws will have the opposite effect."

Wednesday, February 19 2025:

• The Power and Problem of Criminal Justice Data: A Twenty-State Review, Measures for Justice. January, 2023. "The problem is, [pretrial and bail] data rarely exist, especially in court records. Of the twenty states we collected data from, only two, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, had data on pretrial practices, and these were limited at best."
• Understanding the association between frequent emergency department use and jail incarceration: A cross-sectional analysis, Vidya Eswaran, MD, et al. January, 2022. "[Our research] provides an empiric basis for the idea of a revolving door between the county-level carceral and health care systems."
• Factors Associated with Incarceration in Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Results from the HOPE HOME Study, Ilana Garcia-Grossman, MD, et al. June, 2021. "Housing status was dynamic and approximately half exited homelessness during study follow-up; remaining homeless was independently associated with risk of incident incarceration."
• Gender-Affirming Surgical Care in Carceral Settings, Matthew Murphy, MD, MPH, Carl Streed Jr., MD, MPH, and Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH. January, 2025. "The evaluation process for surgical affirmation should follow WPATH's guidance, including aligning surgical and medical gender-affirming care planning as well as the person's reproductive goals."
• Deaths In Dauphin County Prison (Harrisburg, Penn.), 2008-2022, Jonah Walters, Ph.D, Grace Sosa, and Terence Keel, Ph.D, UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab. June, 2024. "The Dauphin County Office of the Coroner appears to have habitually misclassified in-custody deaths attributable to traumatic violence as 'natural,' especially in cases involving deceased Black men."
• Guilt by Association: How Police Databases Punish Black and Latinx Youth, Andy Ratto, Nina Loshkajian, Eleni Manis, PhD, MPA, Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP). September, 2023. "California [made] an effort to open the rolls of CalGang after a 2016 audit revealed egregious errors in the database. And the errors were appalling--42 babies under one-year-old were falsely listed in CalGang."
• 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."
• Women's Incarceration in Idaho: The Problem and a Path Forward, Idaho Justice Project. January, 2025. "In 2022, Idaho had the highest rate of incarceration for women in the nation. The rate (132 per 100,000) was three times the national average (43 per 100,000)."