Friday, November 3 2023:

• The Legislative Primer Series on Front-End Justice: Deflection and Diversion, National Conference of State Legislatures. August, 2023. "Thirty-one states have made significant amendments to, or created new, pretrial diversion programs since 2017."
• Where people in prison come from: The geography of mass incarceration in Rhode Island, Prison Policy Initiative, the Redistricting Data Hub (Peter Horton and Spencer Nelson), Common Cause Rhode Island, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island. October, 2023. "In Providence, the neighborhoods with the highest incarceration rates in 2020 are also the neighborhoods that were "redlined" in the mid-20th century...becoming home to predominantly non-white residents."
• Extreme Heat and Suicide Watch Incidents Among Incarcerated Men David H. Cloud, Brie Williams, and Regine Haardorfer et al. August, 2023. "The incidence rate of daily suicide incidents increased by 29% when the heat index reached the level of caution and by 36% when reaching extreme caution."
• "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."
• Suicide in North Carolina Jails Disability Rights North Carolina. June, 2020. "While the total deaths [in North Carolina jails] increased by 6% (from 46 to 49) between 2018 and 2019, jail suicides increased by 67% (from 12 to 20). In 2019, 41% of all jail deaths were deaths by suicide."
• 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."
• 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."
• Multnomah County Pretrial System Assessment Justice System Partners. February, 2020. "Addressing the over-supervision of pretrial defendants, especially low risk defendants that make up 53% of their court ordered population, will improve the program and save resources to potentially accept more cases."
• Increasing Court-Appearance Rates and Other Benefits of Live-Caller Telephone Court-Date Reminders: The Jefferson County, Colorado, FTA Pilot Project and Resulting Court Date Notification Program, Timothy R. Schnake, Michael R. Jones, and Dorian M. Wilderman. June, 2012. "Telephone reminders using live callers work. They increase court appearance rates, dramatically reducing the significant costs associated with FTAs (failures to appear) and FTA warrants."