Community Impact

  • (New) Housing as a Platform for Formerly Incarcerated Persons [PDF]
    Urban Institute, April, 2012
    “While housing for formerly incarcerated persons is a source of necessary shelter and residential stability, it can also serve as the literal and figurative foundation for successful reentry and reintegration for released adults.”
  • Public Housing transformation and Crime Making the Case for Responsible Relocation, [PDF]
    Urban Institute, April, 2012
    “Overall, our findings show that a substantial majority of neighborhoods [...] were able to absorb public housing relocation voucher households without any adverse effect on neighborhood conditions.”
  • Moving Beyond Sides The Power and Potential of a New Public Safety Policy Paradigm, [PDF]
    Partnership for Safety and Justice, December, 2011
    “he goal of the paper is to explore the untapped potential of a more holistic analysis and strategy that connects traditional criminal justice reform organizations with victim-oriented advocacy groups to work for progressive public safety policy.”
  • The Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children: Needs and Responsive Services, [PDF]
    Joint State Government Commission, General Assembly of Pennsylvania, December, 2011
    “In accordance with the HR 203 and SR 52, the present report focuses on ameliorative intervention, at mitigating the negative impacts of parental incarceration on children, and assisting these children in becoming healthy, productive and responsible adults”
  • Misplaced Priorities Over Incarcerate, Under Educate, [PDF]
    NAACP, April, 2011
    “During the last two decades, as the criminal justice system came to assume a larger proportion of state discretionary dollars, state spending on prisons grew at six times the rate of state spending on higher education.”
  • Mothers Behind Bars State-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinement for pregnant & parenting women, [PDF]
    The Rebecca Project for Human Rights, The National Women's Law Center, October, 2010
    “38 states received failing grades for their failure to institute adequate policies, or any policies at all, requiring that incarcerated pregnant women receive adequate prenatal care, despite the fact that many women in prison have higher-risk pregnancies.”
  • Political Consequences of the Carceral State [PDF]
    Vesla M. Weaver, Amy E. Lerman, September, 2010
    “Encounters with criminal justice institutions can negatively affect perceptions of government, rates of political participation and engagement in civic life.”
  • Collateral Costs Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility, [PDF]
    Pew Charitable Trust, Economic Mobility Project, September, 2010
    “Serving time reduces hourly wages for men by approximately 11 percent, annual employment by 9 weeks and annual earnings by 40 percent.”
  • Incarceration and Social Inequality [PDF]
    Bruce Western & Becky Pettit, August, 2010
    “The social inequality produced my mass incarceration is sizable and enduring for three reasons: it is invisible, it is cumulative, and it is intergenerational.”
  • Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2009
    Bureau of Justice Statistics, December, 2009
    “This annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school. It... provides the most current detailed statistical information on the nature of crime in schools and school environments and responses to violence and crime.”
  • Bearing Witness Baltimore City's Residents Give Voice to What's Needed to Fix the Criminal Justice System, [PDF]
    Justice Policy Institute, April, 2009
    (Bearing Witness captures the perspectives of the people of Baltimore City impacted by the criminal justice system and their suggestions for alternatives to addressing social problems.)
  • Incarcerated Parents and their Children Trends 1991-2007, [PDF]
    Sentencing Project, February, 2009
    “In 2007, 1.7 million minor children had a parent in prison, an 82% increase since 1991.”
  • Understanding the Experiences and Needs of Children of Incarcerated Parents Views from Mentors, [PDF]
    Urban Institute, Justice Policy Center, February, 2008
    “Stigma and shame represented an experience shared by most children of incarcerated parents that distinguished them from other at-risk peers.”
  • The Collateral Effects of Incarceration on Fathers, Families, and Communities, [PDF]
    Council on Crime and Justice, April, 2006
    “Incarcerating large numbers of men from one community is seen as a threat to both individual and community economic stability.”
  • Children of Incarcerated Parents [PDF]
    Council on Crime and Justice, January, 2006
    “Results indicate that children and caregivers often had limited support systems, faced social isolation and encountered barriers with the criminal justice system and correctional institutions.”

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