Thursday, July 3 2025:

• Who Benefits from Automatic Record Relief in California?, California Policy Lab. October, 2024. "We estimate nearly 70% of people with a conviction between 2010-2021 are eligible to have all convictions and non-convictions automatically relieved, leaving them with no remaining criminal record."
• Estimating the impact: How many people are excluded from Fair Housing protections because of a past drug conviction?, Prison Policy Initiative. February, 2025. "By our count, [the Thurmond Amendment] makes it more difficult for as many as 3 million people with these kinds of convictions to secure housing."
• Immigration and Crime: Assessing a Contentious Issue, Graham C. Ousey and Charis E. Kubrin. January, 2018. "[These findings] call into question those theories that advance a strong positive association between immigration and crime, regardless of the mechanism suggested."
• Administrative Nullification and the Precarity of Carceral Reform, Riley Doyle Evans and Stefen R. Short. May, 2025. "In a carceral reform context, administrative nullification disempowers incarcerated people and their advocates and thwarts the democratization of carceral power, retrenching that power in the prison system."
• Vulnerable yet Unprotected: The Hidden Curriculum of the Care of the Incarcerated Patient, Michelle Ihn Suh and Marc David Robinson. December, 2022. "Trainees routinely perform substandard history taking and physical examinations due to indiscriminate shackling and the presence of guards who are actually nonclinical observers outside of the care team."
• Individual- and Area-Level Incarceration and Mortality, Utsha G. Khatri et al. June, 2025. "Individuals who were incarcerated faced significantly higher risks of death, particularly from overdoses, and elevated county incarceration rates exacerbated individual-level mortality risks."
• Rethinking Immigration Enforcement, Charis Elizabeth Kubrin. June, 2025. "Local involvement in immigration enforcement...[is] often justified by the claim that immigrants pose a significant threat to public safety--a claim not supported by evidence."
• ICE Detention at Plymouth County Correctional Facility, Boston University School of Law's Immigrants' Rights and Human Trafficking Program and Prisoners' Legal Services of Massachusetts. September, 2024. "Consistent complaints over the last twenty-five years reveal a disturbing pattern of systemic abuse and mistreatment of ICE detainees at Plymouth County Correctional Facility."
• New research finds higher county jail rates have deadly consequences for entire communities, Prison Policy Initiative. January, 2025. "A recent study from a researcher at University of Pennsylvania finds that higher jail rates are associated with higher death rates, especially for Black people and women."
• Despite fewer people experiencing police contact, racial disparities in arrests, police misconduct, and police use of force continue, Prison Policy Initiative. December, 2024. "New Bureau of Justice Statistics data reveal that concerning trends in policing persisted in 2022, even while fewer people interacted with police than in prior years."
• Report of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on the Parole System, New York State Bar Association. November, 2019. "There is little or no evidence that the current revocation process for persons accused of technical parole violations in New York actually enhances public safety or reduces recidivism as intended."
• Beyond Recidivism: A Systematic Review Exploring Comprehensive Criteria for Successful Reintegration After Prison Release, Ana Mourao et al. May, 2025. "Reintegration is a complex and multifaceted process influenced by factors at different levels--individual, interpersonal, community, organizational, and political."
• Treatment and Care of Incarcerated Females, Louisiana Legislative Auditor. May, 2025. "We found that none of Louisiana's local jails, which house 87.2% of incarcerated women in Louisiana, have sufficient, written procedures encompassing all requirements in state law regarding female incarceration."