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2010 - Study:
Drug-Crime Crackdown May Do More Harm Than Good: B.C. Researchers;
from The Province (BC CAN), 3/23/10
2010 - Right-Sizing Prisons: Business Leaders Make the
Case for Corrections Reform; from Pew Center on the
States, Jan 2010 (pdf)
2010 - Smart
Justice: Findings and Recommendations for Florida Criminal Justice
Reform; from Collins Center for Public Policy, Feb
2010
2010 - Report:
Can Drug Policy Prevent Reefer Madness? from TruthOut
(US), 2/7/10
2010 - U.S.
Report: Rape, Sexual Abuse in Juvenile Corrections Facilities;
from Just Detention International (US), 1/7/10
2010 - Michigan Breaks The Political Logjam: A New Model
For Reducing Prison Populations; from American Civil
Liberties Union, 12/18/09
2009 - Report:
Trail Of Afghanistan's Drug Money Exposed; from Asia
Times (Asia), 12/16/09
2009 - PA:
Report Recommends Changes To The State's Sentencing Guidelines;
from Delaware County Daily Times (PA), 12/7/09
2009 - After the War on Drugs: Blueprint for Regulation;
from Transform Drug Policy Foundation (UK), Nov 2009
2009 - AMA
Report Recognizes Medical Benefits of Marijuana, Urges Further
Research; from Americans for Safe Access (US). 11/10/09
2009 - Veterans
Incarcerated and Ignored When They Could Be Getting Help, Report
Finds; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 11/6/09
2009 - Dutch
Among Lowest Cannabis Users In Europe; from Reuters
(US), 11/5/09
2009 - America's
Problem-Solving Courts; Criminal Cost of Treatment; from
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (US) (pdf)
2009 - Review
of the Department of Justice's Effort to Prevent Staff Sexual
Abuse of Federal Inmates; from USDOJ, Sep 2009, September
2009 (pdf)
2009 - Aligning
Criminal Justice and HIV Prevention: From Conflict to Synergy;
from Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Feb
2009 (pdf)
2009 - Afghanistan's
Narco War: Breaking the Link between Drug Traffickers and Insurgents:
from US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, August 2009
2009 - National Report: 1 in 11 Prisoners Serving
Life Sentences; from The Sentencing Project, 7/22/09
2009 - World
Drug Report 2009; from United Nations Office of Drug
Control (UN), 6/24/09 (pdf)
2009 - Panel
Sets Guidelines For Fighting Prison Rape; from Washington
Post (DC), 6/23/09
2009 - The
Failure of the War on Drugs: Charting a New Course for the Commonwealth;
from Massachusetts Bar Association (MA), June 2009
2009 - A History Of Drug Prohibition And A Prediction
For Its Abolition And Replacement; from Transform
Drug Policy Foundation (UK), June 2009
2009 - The
WHO Cocaine Report The US Didn't Want You To See; from
Transform Drug Policy Foundation (UK), 6/10/09
2009 - Preventing
Overdose, Saving Lives; from Drug Policy Alliance,
June 2009 (pdf)
2009 - Special Report: Maxed Out On Prison Spending
(Including Interactive Incarceration Map); from Detroit
News (MI), April 2009
2009 - Pruning Prisons: How Cutting Corrections Can
Save Money and Protect Public Safety; from Justice
Policy Institute, 5/19/09
2009 - The Costs of Confinement: Why Good Juvenile Justice
Policies Make Good Fiscal Sense; from Justice Policy
Institute, 5/19/09
2009 - Minor
Crimes, Massive Waste: The Terrible Toll of America's Broken
Misdemeanor Court; from National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers (NACDL), Apr 2009
2009 - Drug Courts: A Review of the Evidence;
from The
Sentencing Project, 4/2/09
2009 - Drug Decriminalization in Portugal: Lessons for
Creating Fair and Successful Drug Policies; from CATO
Institute (US), 4/2/09
2009 - Bearing Witness: Baltimore City's Residents Give
Voice to What's Needed to Fix the Criminal Justice System;
from Justice
Policy Institute, 4/1/09
2009 - Jailed Without Justice: Immigrant Detention In
The US; from Amnesty International, 3/25/09
2009 - Internal Exile: Collateral Consequences of Federal
Convictions; from American Bar Association (US),
1/30/09
2009 - Report:
Drug Czar's Office Is Out Of Control; from Open Salon
(US), 3/10/09
2009 - Ten
Wasted Years: UN Drug Strategy A Failure, Reveals Damning Report;
from The Guardian (UK), 3/11/09
2009 - UN
Drug Summit: Undo a Decade of Neglect; from Human
Rights Watch (US), 3/9/09
2009 - The
Consequences and Costs of Marijuana Prohibition (in WA State);
from ACLU
of Washington, 3/5/09 (pdf)
2009 - Healthcare
in New York Prisons; from The Correctional Association of New York,
Mar 2009 (pdf)
2009 - Decades
of Disparity: Drug Arrests and Race in the United States;
from Human Rights
Watch (US), Mar 2009
2009 - 1 In 31: The Long Reach Of American Corrections;
from Pew
Center on the States, Mar 2009
2009 - Incarcerated Parents and Their Children: Trends,
1991-2007; from The
Sentencing Project, 2/9/09
2009 - The
State of Sentencing 2008: Developments in Policy and Practice;
from The Sentencing
Project, Feb 2009
2009 - Strapped States Eye Prison Savings; from
Stateline.org (US), Jan 2009
2009 - Transcripts: The
Rockefeller Drug Laws - 35 Years Later; from Drug Policy Alliance (US), Jan 2009
2009 - The
Health and Health Care of US Prisoners: A Nationwide Survey;
from Physicians for a National Health Program, American Journal
of Public Health, Jan 2009
2008 - Report
Review: New Federal Drug Threat Assessment Finds Prohibition
Greatest Drug-Related Menace; from Drug War Chronicle
(US), 12/19/08
2008 - Prisoners In 2007: 1 in 31 American Adults Now
in Prison, Jail or on Parole; from Bureau of Justice
Statistics (US), Dec 2008
2008 - Special Issue: Barred from Life: The Criminal
"Justice" System; from Catholic Worker,
Fall 2008
2008 - We
Can Do It Again! 75th Anniversary of Alcohol Prohibition's End
Inspires Modern Effort; from Law Enforcement Against
Prohibition (LEAP), Dec 2008
2008 - The
Budgetary Implications of Drug Prohibition, by Jeffrey
A. Miron, Department of Economics, Harvard University,
Dec 2008 (pdf) -- More
Studies and Reports
2008 - Special Report / Series: Drugs Uncovered;
from The Observer/Guardian (UK), Nov 2008
2008 - Criminal
Justice Recommendations For New Administration And Congress;
from The Criminal Justice Transition Coalition, 11/6/08
2008 - Plan
Colombia - Drug Reduction Goals Were Not Fully Met; from
US Government Accounting Office, Oct 2008 (pdf)
2008 - Transcript: Bureau
of Prisons' Director Harley Lappin's Summer 2008 Testimony
to the House Appropriations Committee, with statistics and a
litany of problems facing the BOP you won't find anywhere else.
To publicly comment on this transcript visit: State
of the BOP from Nora's Blog
2008 - Anti-Drug
Ads Haven't Worked; from ABC News (US), 10/15/08
2008 - Moving Target: A Decade of Resistance to the
Prison Industrial Complex; from Justice Policy Institute
(US), 9/25/08
2008 - Report & Poll: Correcting Course: Lessons from the 1970 Repeal
of Mandatory Minimums; from FAMM (US), 9/24/08
2008 - Documents: 2008 USSC Symposium On Alternatives To Incarceration;
from FedCURE (US), Aug 2008 -- More
Studies and Reports
2008 - Serious
Crime Down, Drug Arrests Hold Steady, But Marijuana Arrests Increase
To 872,000; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 9/19/08
2008 - Preliminary
Crack Cocaine Retroactivity Data Report; from US Sentencing
Commission, 9/17/08 (pdf)
2008 - The
Big Question: Is The 'War On Drugs' Really Making The Problem
Worse? from The Independent (UK), 7/31/08
2008 - United
States Sentencing Commission Symposium On Alternatives To Incarceration;
from Federal Public Defenders (OR), June 2008 (pdf)
2008 - US
Leads World In Substance Abuse, WHO Finds; from Reuters
(US), 7/1/08
2008 - Sexual Victimization in Local Jails Reported
by Inmates, 2007; from Bureau of Justice Statistics, 6/25/08
2008 - Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007 and Jail
Inmates at Midyear 2007; from Bureau of Justice Statistics, 6/8/08
2008 - Disparity By Geography: The War on Drugs in America's
Cities; from The Sentencing Project, May 2008
2008 - Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the
Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey; from Drug Policy
Alliance, 5/28/08
2008 - Reports
Find Racial Gap In Drug Arrests; from New York Times
(NY), 5/6/08
2008 - Study:
The NYPD 'Weeds' Out Blacks And Latinos; from Village
Voice (NY), 4/29/08
2008 - Report:
Sentences Reduced For 3,000 Cocaine Inmates; from New
York Times (NY), 4/25/08
2008 - Report:
Jailing Communities: The Impact of Jail Expansion and Effective
Public Safety Strategies; from Justice Policy Institute (US), 4/1/08
2008 - UNODC
Director Declares International Drug Control System Is Not 'Fit
For Purpose'; from Transform (UK), 3/27/08
2008 - A Four-Pillars Approach to Methamphetamine: Policies
for Effective Drug Prevention, Treatment, Policing and Harm Reduction
(pdf); from Drug
Policy Alliance (US), 3/18/08
2008 - Recalibrating the Regime: The Need for a Human
Rights-Based Approach to International Drug Policy; from
Human Rights Watch & The Beckley Foundation, March
2008 (pdf)
2008 - Report of the International Narcotics Control
Board for 2007; from United Nations' International
Narcotics Control Board
2008 - 1
In 100 U.S. Adults Behind Bars, New Study Says; from
New York Times (NY), 2/28/08
2008 - The State Of Sentencing 2007: Developments in
Policy and Practice; from The Sentencing Project, Jan 2008 (pdf)
2008 - Racial Impact Statements as a Means of Reducing
Unwarranted Sentencing Disparities; from Ohio State Journal Of Criminal Law, via
The
Sentencing Project (US), 1/15/08 (pdf)
2008 - The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: A Violation
of International Human Rights Law, from International Harm Reduction Association,
Jan 2008 (pdf)
2007 - Racial Disparities in Criminal Court Processing
in the United States; from The Sentencing Project, Dec 2007 (pdf)
2007 - Report:
Trying Kids As Adults 'Is Counterproductive' from Arizona
Capitol Times (AZ), 12/7/07
2007 - Unlocking America: Why and How to Reduce America's
Prison Population; from JFA Associates (US), Nov 2007 (pdf)
2007 - Reports:
One In Every 31 U.S. Adults Was In A Prison Or Jail Or On Probation
Or Parole At The End Of Last Year; from US Bureau of Justice Statistics, 12/5/07
2007 - The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial Impact of
Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties;
from Justice
Policy Institute, 12/4/07
2007 - Report:
U.S. Prison System A Costly And Harmful Failure; from
Reuters (US), 11/19/07
2007 - Jailing Juveniles: The Dangers of Incarcerating
Youth in Adult Jails in America; from Campaign For Youth Justice (US), 11/15/07
2007 - FACT
SHEET: California's Massive Prison Expansion Deal; Largest
Prison Construction Project In History; from Californians United for a Responsible Budget
(CURB) & Critical Resistance, Nov 07 (pdf)
2007 - Report:
Drugs Strategy Debate 'Is A Sham'; from The Observer
(UK), 10/21/07
2007 - GAO
Study Reveals Abuse Allegations, Deaths at Residential Treatment
Programs; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 10/12/07
2007 - Study:
Out Of Prison And Deep In Debt; from New York Times
(NY), 10/6/07
2007 - Documenting
The Justice Gap In America; from Legal Services Corporation (US), Sep 2007,
(pdf)
2007 - WI:
Drug Sentences Worse For Blacks; from Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel (WI), 9/25/07
2007 - A 25-Year Quagmire: The War on Drugs and Its
Impact on American Society; from The Sentencing Project, 9/20/07
2007 - Government
Study Confirms Systemic Sexual Violence in Detention;
from Stop Prisoner
Rape (US), 8/16/07
2007 - Federal Sentencing Study; by Professor
David Zlotnick, Roger
Williams University School of Law, August 2007
2007 - Report
Reveals Massive Inefficiencies in Government's Medical Cannabis
Program; from BC Compassion Club Society (Canada),
8/9/07
2007 - Uneven
Justice: State Rates of Incarceration By Race and Ethnicity;
from The
Sentencing Project, July 2007
2007 - Life Sentences: The Collateral Sanctions Associated
with Marijuana Offenses; from the Center for
Cognitive Liberty and Ethics (CCLE), July, 2007
2007 - Report:
New Numbers Show "Alarming Growth" In Incarceration;
from Justice Policy Institute (US), 6/27/07
2007 - UN
Report: 200 Million People In World Use Drugs; from Times
of India (India), 6/26/07
2007 - New
Research Shows Supervised Drug Injection Sites Work;
from Drug
Policy Alliance (US), 5/31/07
2007 - Women in the Criminal Justice System: Report
Series; avalable from The Sentencing Project, 5/30/07
2007 - Veterans in State and Federal Prison, 2004;
from US
Bureau of Justice Statistics, 5/20/07
2007 - Stories From Inside: Prisoner Rape and the War
on Drugs; from Stop
Prisoner Rape, 3/22/07
2007 - Brennan Center and Former U.S. Attorneys Release
Prosecutorial Guidelines to Address Racial Disparities in the
Criminal Justice System; from Brennan Center for Justice, 4/4/07
2007 - Report:
New York City Is Hell For Pot Smokers; from Alternet.org (US), 3/31/07
2007 - Prison
Rape and the War on Drugs; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 3/23/07
2007 - Report:
Legal Loophole Leads To Explosion Of Youth In Adult Jails;
from Campaign
for Youth Justice (US), 3/21/07
2007 - Changing Direction? State Sentencing Reforms
2004-2006; from The Sentencing Project, 3/14/07
2007 - Illegal
Drugs Can Be Harmless, Report Says; from Guardian
Unlimited (UK), 3/8/07
2007 - Study:
Drug Testing Kids A Bad Idea; from Pediatrics Journal
(US), 3/1/07
2007 - Mandatory
Drug Terms Are Target In Report; from Baltimore Sun
(MD), 2/27/07
2007 - Report:
U.S. Family Immigrant Centers Like Prisons; from Yahoo
News (US), 2/22/07
2007 - Study
Predicts Rise In Inmate Populations; from Pew Charitable
Trusts (US), 2/14/07
2007 - Study:
Prisoners Face High Death Rate After Release; from Los
Angeles Times (CA), 1/11/07
2006 - Record
7 Million In Criminal Justice System; from Associated
Press (US), 11/30/06
2006 - Annual
Report: The State Of The Drugs Problem In Europe; from
The
European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction,
Nov 06
2006 - Study
Finds More Than Half Of All Prison And Jail Inmates Have Mental
Health Problems; from US Bureau of Justice Statistics,
9/6/06
2006 - Use of Jailhouse Informants: Reports & Recommendations;
from The California Commission on the Fair Administration
of Justice, Nov 2006
2006 - Cracks In The System; 20 Years Of The Unjust
Federal Crack Cocaine Law; from ACLU, 0/26/2006 (PDF Format)
2006 - Drug
Classification: Making A Hash Of It? from United Kingdom
House of Commons, Science and Technology Committee, 7/31/06
(PDF Format)
2006 - A
Billion Dollars A Year For Pot? from Examiner.com
(US Web), 10/18/06
2006 - U.S.: Attack Dogs Used Against Prisoners,
from Human Rights
Watch, 10/11/06
2006 - Government
Prisoner Rape Study Shows Increase in Sexual Violence Reports,
Raises Concerns About Correctional Authorities' Follow Up;
from Stop Prison Rape: SPR (US), 7/06
2006 - ACLU Report Documents Thousands Trapped in Flooded
Orleans Parish Prison for Days Without Food, Water During Katrina;
from ACLU
of Louisiana, 8/10/06
2006 - Report:
Anti-Drug Ads A Waste, Auditors Say; from Associated
Press (US), 8/26/06
2006 - Study:
State Fills Up Prisons With Drug Criminals; from Chicago
Tribune (IL), 8/22/06
2006 - Why Are Federal Judges So Acquittal Prone?
from Law
Quarterly, Washington University School of Law (MO)(PDF
Format)
2006 - Study:
Alcohol Most Abused Substance In Rural Areas; from The
Carsey Institute, Univ. Of New Hampshire
2006 - Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids
in America; from The
Cato Institute, 7/17/06
2006 - Evaluation Of Prisons In The Organization Of
American States; from CURE National (Citizens United for Rehabilitation
of Errants), Jun 06 (PDF Format)
2006 - 2006 World Drugs Report; from UN Office On Drugs
And Crime (UNODC), Jul 06
2006 - Alcohol
A Bigger Threat To U.S. Youth Than Drugs; from HealthDay
News (US), 6/27/06
2006 - The Next Big Thing? Methamphetamine in the United
States - New Report Disproves Myth of Methamphetamine "Epidemic;
from The
Sentencing Project, June 2006 (PDF Format)
2006 - Survey
of White Americans Finds Choice of Prison over Treatment Related
to Attitudes on Race and Morality; from Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
(SAPRP), June 2006
2006 - Report: Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to
Wrongful Convictions; by Alexandra Natapoff, Loyola Law
School (CA), June 2006
2006 - Confronting
Confinement: A Report Of The Commission On Safety And Abuse In
America's Prisons, 6/8/06
2006 - Liberalisation
Of Drug Laws Leads To Massive Fall In Number Of Users, According
To New Study; from The Independent (UK), 6/2/06
2006 - Americans
Abandon "Punishment Only" Attitudes in Effort to Reduce
Crime; from Zogby International, Apr 06
2006 - Study
Finds No Cancer, Marijuana Connection; from Washington
Post (DC), 5/26/06
2006 - Prisoners in 2005 - Mid-Year;
released April 2006 from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. (PDF
Format)
2006 - Study:
OTC Drugs, Prescriptions Send More To ER Than Cocaine;
from USA Today (US), 5/10/06
2006 - Dreher's
Jamaican Pregnancy Study: More Suppression of Marijuana Research;
from CounterPunch (US Web), 4/22/06
2006 - Harsh
Law Hits Home: How Many College Students in Your State Have Lost
Financial Aid Due to Drug Convictions? from Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP),
Apr 06
2006 - Proposition 36: Five Years Later; California
Sees Greatest Drop in Drug Prisoners Among Large State Prison
Systems Since Prop. 36 Enacted; from Justice Policy Institute (US), 4/13/06
2006 - Take Action! Don't Let Congress Poison People - Report:
Repeating Mistakes Of The Past: Another Mycoherbicide
Research Bill; from Drug Policy Alliance (US),
PDF Format - Apr 06
2006 - Drug
Tally Shoots Down A Racial Myth; from Boston Globe
(MA) & Boston
Public Health Commission, Mar 06
2006 - Booker,
Blakely & Fanfan Sentencing Materials;
from The United
States Sentencing Commission
2006 - National Drug Threat Assessment 2006;
from US Dept. of Justice,
January 2006
2006 - Women's
Human Rights: Abuse of Women in Custody: Sexual Misconduct and
the Shackling of Pregnant Women; from Amnesty
International USA, 3/1/06
2006 - Falling
Through the Cracks: Loss of State-Based Financial Aid Eligibility
for Students Affected by the Federal Higher Education Act Drug
Provision; from DRCNet (US Web) (PDF Format)
2006 - Budget of the United States Government, Department
of Justice, Fiscal Year 2007 (PDF
Version) Includes Drug Control and Bureau of Prisons Budgets.
2006 - Study Finds Drug Treatment Is Cost-Effective
Alternative to Prison; from Research Triangle Institute (NC)
2006 - Study
Claiming Rape Rare In Prisons Disputed By Experts; from
Associated Press (US), 1/31/06
2006 - Human Rights Watch World Report 2006: U.S. Policy
of Abuse Undermines Rights Worldwide; from Human Rights Watch (Worldwide)
2006 - Special Report: Sexual Abuse Behind Bars;
from The Detroit News (MI)
2005 - Drug
Offenders: Various Factors May Limit the Impact Of Federal Laws
That Provide For Denial Of Selected Benefits; from GAO,
the Government Accounting Office (PDF Format)
2005 - Battle
Tactics: The Economics of the War on Drugs; from The University
of Chicago Graduate School of Business
2005 - New Report Documents Felony Voting Laws Breakdown:
A
"Crazy-Quilt" of Tiny Pieces: State and Local Administration
of American Criminal Disenfranchisement Laws; from The
Sentencing Project, 11/9/05 (PDF Format)
2005 - Snitching:
The Institutional and Communal Consequences, by Professor
Alexandra Natapoff; from University of Cincinnati Law Review (PDF
Format)
2005 - A
Public Health Approach to Drug Control in Canada; from
Health Officers Council of British Columbia (CAN), Oct.
2005 (PDF Format)
2005 - The
Diminishing Returns of Increased Incarceration: A Blueprint to
Improve Public Safety and Reduce Costs; from The
JFA Institute (DC), Oct 2005 (PDF Format)
2005 - Marijuana Might Cause
New Cell Growth In The Brain; from New Scientist Magazine (US), 10/13/05
2005 - Prisoners in 2004 -
Year-End; released October 2005 from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. (PDF
Format)
2005 - The
Rest of Their Lives: Life without Parole for Child Offenders
in the United States; from Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, 10/12/05
2005 - Efficacy and Impact: The Criminal Justice Response
to Marijuana Policy in the US; from The Justice Policy Institute
2005 - Sexual Violence Reported by Correctional Authorities,
2004 (NCJ-210333) from The Bureau Of Justice Statistics
2005 - Release: Commission
Hearing Probes Crowding In Prison, Use Of Isolation, & Medical
And Mental Health Care; from The Commission On Safety And Abuse In America's
Prisons, August 2005
2005 - Women's Rights: Another Casualty of the Drug
War; Resolution adopted by The National Organization of Women (NOW),
passed July 3, 2005.
2005 - Revealed:
How Drugs War Failed; from The Guardian (UK),
7/5/05 - Scathing secret Downing Street Report uncovered
2005 - World Drug Report; from The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
(UNODC)
2005 - The US Sentencing Commission's Assessment of How
Well the Federal Criminal Justice System is Achieving the Goals
of Sentencing Reform warrants study. You
can view the Executive Summary and download the report here.
2005 - A
Summary of Research, Practice, and Guiding Principles for Women
Offenders. The Gender-Responsive Strategies Project: Approach
and Findings; from The
National Institute of Corrections
2005 - The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition,
by Jeffrey A. Miron, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
2005 - Special Report: Deterring Staff Sexual Abuse of Federal Inmates;
from US Dept. of Justice, Office of Inspector General, May 05.
2005 - The
War on Marijuana: The Transformation of the War on Drugs in the
1990s; from The Sentencing Project (PDF Format)
2005 - Prisoners in 2004 - Mid-Year;
released April 2005 from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. (PDF Format)
2005 - You Are Going Directly To Jail - DUID Legislation:
What It Means, Who's Behind It, and Strategies to Prevent It;
from NORML
2005 - Why,
After Tulia, Texas Should Re-think Its Big Government Approach
To The Drug War; from ACLU of Texas (PDF Format)
2005 - Caught
in the Net: How US Drug Laws Harm Women; from ACLU, Break the
Chains and the Brennan Center for Justice (pdf)
2005 - State by State Corrections Statistics;
from The National
Institute of Corrections
2005 - Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana Arrests in
the United States; from The National Organization to
Reform Marijuana Laws (NORML)
2005 - Report
Of The International Narcotics Control Board For 2004;
A United Nations Publication
2005 - Adult Drug Courts: Evidence Indicates Recidivism
Reductions and Mixed Results for Other Outcomes; from
The Government Accounting Office (GAO) - (PDF Format)
2005 - Leading
Medical, Legal And Civic Groups Propose Workable Exit Strategy
For The Failed "War On Drugs"; from The
King County Bar Association (WA), 3/3/05
2005 - Gideon's Broken Promise: America's Continuing
Quest for Equal Justice - A Report on the American Bar
Association's Hearings on the Right to Counsel in Criminal Proceedings
2005 - A
Guide to Rockefeller Drug Reform: Understanding the New Legislation;
from The Center for Community Alternatives (NY), Jan 05
2005 - RESOLUTION: State
Regulation and Control of Psychoactive Substances; from
The King County Bar Association, Board of Trustees (WA), 1/19/05
2005 - The Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council;
The Council of State Governments established the Re-Entry Policy
Council (RPC) in 2001 to assist state government officials grappling
with the increasing number of people leaving prisons.
2005 - Office of National Drug Control Policy: Video
News Release, B-303495, (Whether 'pre-packaged news stories'
from ONDCP constitute 'covert propaganda'); from GAO: The Government Accountability Office
2004 - Million-Dollar
Blocks: The Neighborhood Costs Of America's Prison Boom;
from The
Village Voice (NY)
2004 - The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and
Drug Addiction 2004 Annual Report.
2004 - Drugs
and Crime Across America: Police Chiefs Speak Out; from
Drug Strategies (PDF Format)
2004 - Executive
Summary: Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of
U.S. Policy (PDF Format); from The Washington Office on Latin America
2004 - Fifteen Years of Guidelines Sentencing;
from The U.S. Sentencing Commission.
2004 - No Second Chance: People with Criminal Records
Denied Access to Public Housing; from Human Rights Watch
2004 - Civil Rights Enforcement By Bush Administration
Lags; a report from TRAC, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
2004 - Prisoners in 2003 -
Year's End; released November 2004 from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics. (PDF Format)
2004 - Illicit Drug Policies: Selected Laws from the
50 States is the first comprehensive guide to illicit
drug laws in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Also
available in PDF or ZIP Format.
2004 - After the War on Drugs: Options for Control
- A report from The Transform Drug Policy Foundation,
(United Kingdom)
2004 - The
Wealth Of Hispanic Households: Study Says White Families'
Wealth Advantage Has Grown; from The Pew Hispanic Center (PDF
Format)
2004 - Evaluation
of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act 2003
(CA's Prop 36) Report; from UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Program.
(PDF Format)
2004 - Unjust and Counterproductive: New York's Rockefeller
Drug Laws; from Physicians
for Human Rights.
2004 - Almost
6.9 Million On Probation Or Parole Or Incarcerated In U.S. Prisons
Or Jails; from US Bureau of Justice Statistics. Full
report (PDF format) available at www.csdp.org/research/ppus03.pdf
2004 - Schools
And Prisons: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board Of Education;
from The Sentencing Project (PDF format).
2004 - Jail Breaks: Economic Development Subsidies Given
to Private Prisons; from Good Jobs First, A Project of
the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. This study examines
an overlooked aspect of the billion-dollar private prison industry:
the extent to which it has been the recipient of economic development
subsidies provided by local, state and federal governments.
2004 - U.S.
'Correctional Population' Hits New High; from The New
York Times, 7/25/04. Almost
6.9 Million On Probation Or Parole Or Incarcerated In U.S. Prisons
Or Jails, according to US BJS. Full report available in PDF
format at www.csdp.org/research/ppus03.pdf
2004 - Marijuana
Growth in British Columbia; from The Fraser Institute,
Vancouver, BC, Canada. Study recommends full legalization/regulation.
(PDF Format)
2004 - Still
Striking Out: Ten Years of California's Three Strikes;
from The
Justice Policy Institute, 3/5/04 (PDF
Format)
2004 - Treatment or Incarceration: National and State
Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus
Imprisonment, from The Justice Policy Institute, 3/24/04 (Also available
in PDF Format)
2004 - Flawed Enforcement: Why Drug Task Force Highway
Interdiction Violates Rights, Wastes Tax Dollars, And Fails To
Limit The Availability Of Drugs In Texas; from the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
2004 - The Pain Merchants: Security Equipment And Its
Use In Torture And Other Ill-Treatment; from Amnesty
International, 2/12/03 (Also available
in PDF Format)
2004 - After Prison: Roadblocks To Reentry -
A Report On State Legal Barriers Facing People With Criminal
Records; from the Legal
Action Resource Center (Also available
in PDF Format)
2004 - World
Prison Population List, 2003 (4th ed.), Roy Walmsley,
United Kingdom Home Office Research. Data shows U.S. continues
to be World's Leading Jailer (PDF Format)
2004 - Prison
and Jail Inmates at Mid-Year 2003; from The Bureau of Justice Statistics (PDF Format)
2004 - The
Meaning Of "Life": Long Prison Sentences In Context,
by Marc Mauer, Ryan S. King, And Malcolm C. Young; from The Sentencing Project (PDF
Format)
2004 - The
New Landscape of Imprisonment: Mapping America's Prison Expansion;
by Sarah Lawrence & Jeremy Travis; from The Urban Institute (PDF
Format)
2004 - The Limited Relevance
of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and in San Francisco;
by Craig Reinarman, PhD, Peter D. A. Cohen, PhD, and Hendrien
L. Kaal, PhD (PDF Format)
2004 - The Prison Index: Taking the Pulse of the Crime
Control Industry; available from The Prison Policy Initiative.
2004 - Justice
Reinvestment: To Invest in Public Safety by Reallocating Justice
Dollars to Refinance Education, Housing, Healthcare and Jobs;
from The Open
Society Institute (PDF format)
2004 - Smart On
Crime: Positive Trends in State-Level Sentencing and Corrections
Policy; from 2003 - Stop Prisoner Rape Report: The Sexual Abuse of Female Inmates in
Ohio; December 2003 (PDF Format)
2003 - Sentencing Authority and the Separation of Powers:
"Who Decides Sentences at the Front End?" - Testimony
of Paul Rosenzweig, Heritage Foundation, before the ABA Justice
Kennedy Commission - (PDF format)
2003 - Race and the Enforcment of Drug Delivery Laws
in Seattle - Prepared on behalf of the Defender Association's
Racial Disparity Project, Seattle, Washington - (PDF format)
2003 - Veterans
in Prison or Jail; A Special Report from the Bureau of Justice
Statistics - (PDF format)
2003 - Post Incarceration Syndrome and Relapse (PICS);
By Terence T. Gorski
2003 - State of the States: Drug Policy Reforms, 1996-2002;
from Drug Policy Alliance
2003 - The 2002 report on California Proposition 36
(The Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act [SACPA])
- from UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (PDF format,
1.2 Mb)
2003 - Incarcerated America: A report on American prisons
- from Human Rights Watch
2003 - From The Center for Public Integrity - A major new Study on Prosecutorial Misconduct:
Harmful Error. Such misconduct includes the failure of prosecutors
to disclose evidence suggesting the defendant's innocence; coaching
potential witnesses; misstating the power of forensic evidence;
and failing adequately to question the accounts of self-interested
jailhouse informants.
2003 - Comparative
International Rates of Incarceration: An Examination of Causes
and Trends - Presented to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights;
Written by Marc Mauer, Assistant Director, The Sentencing Project
(PDF file)
2003 - Texas Tough II, a policy brief from the Justice
Policy Institute - After a three-year-decline in the prison
population, Texas' prison population may once again be on the
rise.
2003 - The Sentencing Project: Big Prisons, Small Towns: Prison Economics in
Rural America (PDF file) - Examines the impact of new prison
construction in rural communities.
2003 - The Justice Policy Institute: Cut Maryland Prison Population to Ease Budget
Crisis -
Study Findings Echo Gov. Ehrlich's Call for Treatment Instead
of Incarceration
2003 - A new report available from Transactional Records
Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University reveals
wide variations found among assistant U.S. attorneys (AUSAs)
in the percentage of investigative matters they decline to prosecute.
2003 - The Justice Policy Institute: Cutting Correctly, One Year Later: State Budget
Crisis and Corrections Reform
2002 - Common Sense for Drug Policy: Drug War Distortions and Drug War Facts
2001 - The Sentencing Project: Three Strikes, Seven Years Later (PDF file)
- Examines the impact of the aging prison population.
2001 - "Whose Safety? - Women of color and the violence of law enforcement
2001 - ACLU - Poll Shows Surprisingly Forgiving Attitude
Toward Crime and Punishment: Most Americans Don't Want to Throw Away the Key
2001 - The Pew Research Center: Interdiction and Incarceration Still Top Remedies,
74% Say Drug War Being Lost
2001 - Building Blocks for Youth Initiative - Drugs and Disparity: The Racial Impact of Illinois'
Practice of Transferring Young Drug Offenders to Adult Court
2001 - Justice Policy Institute - Too Little Too Late: President Clinton's Prison
Legacy
2000 - Justice Policy Institute - Drug Use and Justice: An Examination of California
Drug Policy Enforcement
2000 - Justice Policy Institute - Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug
Offenders in the United States
2000 - Human Right's Watch - Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities
in the War on Drugs
2000 - Justice Policy Institute - Texas Tough? An Analysis of Incarceration and
Crime Trends in The Lone Star State
1999 - The War on Drugs: Addicted to Failure. Recommendations
of the L.A. Citizens' Commission on U.S. Drug Policy; from
The Institute
for Policy Studies (Available as 5 Adobe Acrobat files):
1999 - Network of Reform Organizations - The Effective National Drug Control Strategy
1999 - USDOJ: Bureau of Justice Statistics - Incarcerated Parents and Their Children -
(PDF format)
1999 - Amnesty International - Not Part of My Sentence - Violations of the
Human Rights of Women in Custody (PDF Format)
1999 - Justice Policy Institute - America's One Million Nonviolent Prisoners
1999 - Human Right's Watch - Official Data Reveal Most New York Drug Offenders
Are Nonviolent
1999 - Frontline - PBS - SNITCH: How informants have become a kay part
of prosecutorial strategy in the drug war
1999 - Justice Policy Institute - The Punishing Decade: Prison and Jail Estimates
at the Millennium (PDF Format)
1998 - Mandatory Minimums and Parental
Attitudes: The Effects of Lengthy Incarceration On Parents
of Non-violent Offenders, written by Paul Lewin (PDF Format)
1998: The
Past and Future of US Prison Policy: Twenty-Five Years After
the Stanford Prison Experiment," by Craig Haney and
Philip Zimbardo, from American Psychologist, July 1998, Vol.
53, No. 7, (PDF Format)
1998- Bill Moushey, Pittsburg Post Gazette - Win At All Costs, Government misconduct in
the name of expedient justice
1998 - Amnesty International - USA:
Rights For All: Human Rights In The United States Of America
(PDF Format)
1998 - National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse
(CASA) - Behind Bars: Substance Abuse and America's Prison
Population
1997 - Rand Corporation - Are Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences Cost-Effective?
1997 - The Sentencing Project - Intended and Unintended Consequences: State Racial
Disparities in Imprisonment (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
1996 - New York County Lawyers' Association - Report and Recommendations of the Drug Policy
Task Force
1994 - Federal Judicial Center - The Consequences of Mandatory Minimum Prison
Terms (Adobe Acrobat PDF format)
1972 - Consumer Reports Magazine - The Consumers Union Report: - Licit and Illicit
Drugs - by Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer
Reports Magazine
For more reports and studies on drug policy and incarceration
issues, visit the links below:
Collection
of Studies and Reports from The Open Society Institute
Mandatory Minimums
and Parental Attitudes: The Effects of Lengthy Incarceration
on Parents of Non-Violent Offenders - By Paul Lewin.
Freedom of Information
Act/Privacy Act Explained - An in depth guide to getting
the documents you need from the government; compiled by Prisoners
of the Drug War and the November Coalition.
(Note: For downloadable PDF format files, you will need the
Free Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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