Wednesday, May 20 2026:

• Incarcerated Persons' Day in the Sun: Why Prisoners Should Have a Right to Fresh Air and Direct Sunlight, David Gross. 2026. "The right to fresh air and direct sunlight can be energized through aspirational, yet attainable recreation standards. But these standards must be clear and particularized."
• The Federal Death Penalty as a Sign of the Times, Ngozi Ndulue. February, 2026. "Though the federal death penalty has often followed the trends already playing out in the states, recent years have seen federal action that can help map out future directions for state death penalty systems."
• Hepatitis C treatment in a jail setting: A retrospective cohort analysis of low-barrier initiation of direct acting antivirals, Justin Berk et al. February, 2025. "Over half of individuals who initiated treatment in jail completed treatment before release, demonstrating feasibility even in a setting with unpredictable incarceration lengths."
• The People's Safety: How Cities Can Protect Local Control Over Public Safety, Center for Policing Equity. February, 2026. "We have outlined some actions local officials and communities can take to resist national momentum towards targeting vulnerable communities for terror instead of safety."

Friday, May 15 2026:

• Gang Databases and Immigration Enforcement, Center for Policing Equity. February, 2026. "Because of vague criteria, gang databases have not been shown to reduce crime, and may misallocate valuable public safety resources."
• Re-Punished For The Past: How Criminal Records Increase Prison Terms and Racial Injustice, Sentencing Project. February, 2025. "Take, for example, someone with a criminal record who received a 20 year sentence in Maryland. On average, 12.6 of those years were added to an initial sentence because of their record."
• No Time to Wait: A Case for Releasing Elders from California's Women's Prisons, California Coalition for Women Prisoners. March, 2026. "An average of just twelve people per year were granted elderly parole from a women's prison from 2014-2023."
• Prolonged Incarceration of Children Due to Mental Health Care Shortages, Staff of Senator Jon Ossoff & Representative Jen Kiggans. February, 2026. "Seventy-five facilities across 25 states reported incarcerating children of various offenses statuses who could be eligible for release to external mental health care."

Thursday, May 14 2026:

• The Cost of Criminal Case Delays and State-Tested Solutions, R Street Institute. March, 2026. "Beyond undermining deterrence, delays also harm the public in predictable ways. Victims wait longer for closure, witnesses lose track of details or disappear, and the justice system burns scarce resources managing cases that drag on."
• Building the Table: Advancing a Sustained Federal Commitment to Ensure Economic Justice for Systems-Impacted Individuals, JustUS Coordinating Council. October, 2023. "Approximately $200 million was appropriated by Congress for ...people returning from incarceration in FY22...In comparison, the system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year."
• Building the Table: A Right to Quality and Continuous Health Care for People Incarcerated and Returning from Incarceration, JustUS Coordinating Council. April, 2024. "We believe that the federal government has the responsibility to advance sets of reforms and actions that uphold the human right to healthcare for people who are incarcerated and those returning from incarceration."
• Building the Table: The Cost of Conviction, JustUS Coordinating Council. November, 2025. "Formerly incarcerated individuals are often framed as riskier than the average consumer...mainly due to how financial institutions define "risky.""
• Understanding the Impact of Racial and Ethnic Disparities from Arrest to Sentencing A Case Study of San Francisco, California; Pima County, Arizona; and New Orleans, Louisiana, Safety and Justice Challenge. April, 2026. "[In San Francisco,] At the initial pretrial detention decision, as indicated by pretrial detention length, moderate disparities emerged in the likelihood of being detained among those with custodial bookings."
• 50 States, 1 Goal: Recidivism Rate Trends Over the Past Decade, CSG Justice Center. May, 2026. "Nationally, reincarceration rates have dropped about 20% over the past decade, from approximately 35% to 28%."