Friday, May 16 2025:

• Natural hazards and prisons Protecting human rights of people in prison in disaster prevention, response and recovery, Penal Reform International. December, 2021. "People in prison are largely dependent on prison staff to ensure their health and safety during disasters. Unlike people in the community, they cannot make their own decisions to evacuate to safer areas or to stock up on basic supplies."
• Myths and Realities: Prosecutors and Criminal Justice Reform, Brennan Center for Justice. October, 2024. "Our analysis also finds no clear relationship between the pro-reform prosecutorial approach and the incidence of crime."
• Only One In Twenty Justice-Referred Adults In Specialty Treatment For Opioid Use Receive Methadone Or Buprenorphine, Noa Krawczyk et al. December, 2017. "Only 4.6 percent of justice-referred clients received agonist treatment, compared to 40.9 percent of those referred by other sources."
• Demographic Profiles of New Hampshire: A Focus on Incarceration, New Hampshire Center for Justice and Equity. April, 2024. "Despite the lack of data on facility-level demographics across NH, what is reported indicates that NH incarcerates people of color at disproportionately high rates compared to White populations, mirroring national trends."
• Criminal Justice System Involvement Among U.S. Military Veterans: Prevalence, Correlates, and Mental Health Burden, Paywall :( Andrew W. Meisler, Mayumi O. Gianoli, and Robert H. Pietrzak. January, 2025. "Justice system involvement [in a nationally representative sample of veterans] was associated with racial/ethnic minority, lower income/education, combat, and other lifetime traumas."
• Economic Booms and Recidivism, Ozkan Eren and Emily Owens. 2023. "We estimate that a ten thousand dollar increase in the per capita value of energy production is associated with a 2.8% reduction in the 1-year recidivism of ex-offenders relative to those released into other counties or at different times."

Tuesday, May 6 2025:

• Where Do You Go When Your Prison Cell Floods? Inadequacy of Current Climate Disaster Plans of US Departments of Correction, Morgan Maner et al. October, 2022. "Most state and DOC emergency management (EM) plans do not outline how to protect the safety of incarcerated populations and carceral staff. Common themes across state and DOC-level EM plans include resident labor and use of materials."
• The Prisoner Trade, Emma Kaufman. April, 2020. "Today, prisoners have no right to be incarcerated in the state where they were convicted, and prison officials may trade prisoners -- either for money or for other prisoners -- across state lines."
• The Hidden Crisis: How Poverty Drives Crime in Rural Oklahoma, Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform. February, 2025. "In Oklahoma City & Tulsa, violent crime is more likely to involve a gun, a stranger, and occur outside the home. Meanwhile, in smaller communities, violent crime is more likely to involve a family member, use personal weapons, and occur inside the home."
• The Rikers Island Longitudinal Study: Research Report, Samantha Plummer and Jaclyn Davis, Columbia Justice Lab. October, 2024. "The Rikers Island Longitudinal Study [from 2019 to 2021] aimed to understand how defendants' experiences in the pretrial process affected and were affected by their social and economic life conditions."
• Seizing the Safety Net: Collecting Criminal Justice Debt With Tax Refund Offsets, National Consumer Law Center. January, 2025. "The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is intended to increase employment in the formal labor market by increasing incentives...However, seizure of the EITC undermines this incentive, exacerbat[ing] existing pressure to drop out of the formal labor market."
• Caged Birds and Those That Hear Their Songs: Effects of Race and Sex in South Carolina Parole Hearings, David M.N. Garavito, Amelia Courtney Hritz, and John H. Blume. January, 2024. "The parole board was significantly less likely to grant parole to incarcerated men compared to women and to Black people compared to white people...Black men were least likely to be granted parole, whereas white women were the most likely."