Wednesday, December 31 2025:

• Hepatitis C Virus Is Associated With Increased Mortality Among Incarcerated Hospitalized Persons in Massachusetts, Alysse G. Wurcel, Rubeen Guardado, and Curt G. Beckwith. December, 2021. "[Hepatitis C virus] was associated with a 61% increased risk of 2-year mortality even after controlling for severity of disease...Black race was associated with decreased risk of death in both the univariate and multivariate analyses."
• The Jail-to-Deportation Pipeline in Wisconsin, ACLU Wisconsin. July, 2025. "Our 2022 report noted that eight Wisconsin sheriffs had signed formal 287(g) agreements. As of July 2025, according to ICE, the number of Wisconsin law enforcement agencies with active 287(g) agreements has increased to 13."
• Coming Home? Assessing the Housing Needs of People Nearing Release from Illinois Prisons, Loyola Chicago Center for Criminal Justice. December, 2025. "A total of 28% of the men and 42% of the women...said they were unsheltered or unhoused at least part of the time during the 3 years before prison."

Friday, December 19 2025:

• Grasping the Third Rail: Restorative Justice and Violent Crime, Olwyn Conway. February, 2025. "Expansion of restorative justice in such limited areas [as low-level, nonviolent offenses] is unlikely to meaningfully decrease rates of incarceration."
• Estimating Health Condition Prevalence Among a Statewide Cohort with Recent Homelessness or Incarceration, Lucas Zellmer et al. September, 2025. "Substance use disorders among individuals with recent homelessness or jail or prison incarceration, including opioid use disorder, were higher compared to the general population."

Thursday, December 18 2025:

• The use of solitary confinement and in-custody mortality in North Carolina State Prisons, 2021-2023, Katherine LeMasters et al. September, 2025. "As individuals were admitted to prison, approximately 3% went directly into two or more weeks of consecutive solitary confinement."
• Limited by Design: The Policy Framework of Legal Access in Prison, Ithaka S+R. May, 2025. "Only about a quarter of states...include provisions in their policies specifying the hours of operation for prison law libraries. Another 25 percent delegate this decision to individual facilities, offering no statewide standard."
• Barriers and Facilitators to Delivering Cancer Care in US Prisons, Christopher R. Manz et al. October, 2025. "Security restrictions also prohibit family members from attending clinic visits or clinicians from calling family, such that incarcerated patients must process complex information about their prognosis alone."
• Incarceration and Quality of Cancer Care, Oluwadamilola T. Oladeru et al. October, 2025. "In the incarcerated group, the median time to treatment was 33 days for those with local and regional stage at diagnosis, compared with 31 days in the postrelease group and 21 days in the never incarcerated group."
• Trapped in Time: The Silent Crisis of Elderly Incarceration, ACLU and the Prison & Jail Innovation Lab. September, 2025. "In 2012, a court ruling led to the negotiated release of 178 elderly, life-sentenced people in Maryland...in the four years following the court ruling, not a single person was rearrested for a crime more serious than a traffic offense."
• Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump, Prison Policy Initiative. July, 2025. "ICE and other federal agencies can refer people for federal prosecution on immigration-related "crimes" and thus use contracted local jails...this shift hides the true scale of immigrant detention from public view."
• Counsel at First Appearance Evaluation, Georges Naufal et al. August, 2023. "The presence of defense counsel lowered the average bond amount from about $15,000 to around $12,500 (in Hays County) and from about $11,400 to around $10,700 (in Potter County)."
• Solitary confinement and post-release drug and alcohol test failure among formerly incarcerated men on parole in Pennsylvania (2010-2023), Paywall :( Claudia N. Anderson, Jessica T. Simes, Jaquelyn L. Jahn, and Bruce Western. November, 2025. "Drug test failure was common among those on parole and especially for those with severe SUD."
• Life Sentences in the United States, [Website] Wilson Center for Science and Justice. November, 2025. (This dashboard compiles presents two decades of data on people serving life sentences in the United States, including state-level and demographic data.)
• The Role of Second Look Policies in Reforming California's Approach to Incarceration, California Policy Lab. September, 2025. "People released due to resentencing policies were less likely to be convicted of new crimes within the first year than total releases, and the majority of new convictions were for misdemeanors. The one-year new conviction rates ranged from 3% to 29%."
• Work To Be Done: Women's Incarceration in the 21st Century, National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and the FreeHer Institute. October, 2025. "Black and Latina women are incarcerated at higher rates than white women (1.6x and 1.2x respectively), although it is worth noting that white women's rate of incarceration is on the rise compared to other groups."
• Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2025, Prison Policy Initiative. August, 2025. "By our estimation, nearly 45% of youth in confinement could likely be safely released today."