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Adult Corrections Reports

Pruning Prisons: How Cutting Corrections Can Save Money and Protect Public Safety
5/12/09
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Public Safety

The Release Valve: Parole in Maryland
3/5/09
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Maryland, Public Safety, Racial Disparity

Bearing Witness: Baltimore City’s Residents Give Voice
to What’s Needed to Fix the Criminal Justice System

4/1/09
Author(s): Collaboration of organizations listed on report page.
Topic(s): Drug Policy, Adult Corrections, Maryland, Public Safety

Jailing Communities: The Impact of Jail Expansion and Effective Public Safety Strategies
4/1/08
Author(s): Amanda Petteruti and Nastassia Walsh
Topic(s): Adult Corrections

Substance Abuse Treatment and Public Safety Policy Brief (4 out of 4 in a series) 
1/22/08
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Public Safety, Adult Corrections

The Vortex: The Concentrated Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties
12/4/07
Author(s): Phillip Beatty, Amanda Petteruti, and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s):Adult Corrections, Drug Policy

Housing and Public Safety Policy Brief (3 out of 4 in a series)
11/1/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Public Safety, Adult Corrections

Education and Public Safety Policy Brief
8/29/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute

Topic(s): Public Safety, Adult Corrections

Gang Wars: The Failure of Enforcement Tactics and the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies
7/17/07
Author(s): Judith Greene and Kevin Pranis
Topic(s): Gangs, Public Safety, Adult Corrections, Juvenile Justice

Maryland's Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Laws: Their Impact on Incarceration, State Resources and Communities of Color
2/26/07
Author(s): Timothy Roche, Nastassia Walsh, and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Maryland, Adult Corrections, Drug Policy

Progress and Challenges: An Analysis of Drug Treatment and Imprisonment in Maryland from 2000 to 2005
9/1/06
Author(s): Kevin Pranis
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Drug Policy

Proposition 36: Five Years Later
4/1/06
Author(s): Jason Ziedenberg & Scott Ehlers
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Efficacy and Impact: The Criminal Justice Response to Marijuana Policy in the United States
8/1/05
Author(s): Jason Ziedenberg and Jason Coburn
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Drug Policy

Tipping Point: Maryland's Overuse of Incarceration and the Impact on Public Safety
3/1/05
Author(s): Jason Ziedenberg and Eric Lotke
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Race & Imprisonment in Texas: Policy Brief
2/1/05
Author(s): Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Racial Disparity

Racial Divide: California's 3 Strikes Law
10/1/04
Author(s): Scott Ehlers, Vincent Schiraldi and Eric Lotke
In partnership with: Technical Assistance Report to the Commissioners from the Annie E. Casey Foundation Regarding Juvenile Detention System Practices and Recommended Reforms
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Racial Disparity

3 Strikes & You're Out: An Examination of the Impact of Strikes Laws 10 years after their Enactment
9/1/04
Author(s): Eric Lotke, Jason Colburn & Vincent Schiraldi
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Swing States: Crime, Prisons and the Future of the Nation
8/1/04
Author(s): Eric Lotke, Deborah Stromberg & Vincent Schiraldi
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

New York City's Alternative Incarceration Programs: Cut Crime, Cut Costs and Help People and Communities
4/1/04
Author(s): Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Juvenile Justice

Still Striking Out: Ten Years of California’s Three Strikes
3/1/04
Author(s): Scott Ehlers, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Treatment or Incarceration: National and State Findings on the Efficacy and Cost Savings of Drug Treatment Versus Imprisonment
1/1/04
Author(s): Doug McVay, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Drug Policy

Race and Incarceration in Maryland
10/23/03
Author(s): Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
In partnership with: Commissioned by the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Maryland, Racial Disparity

Observations and Options for Relieving Overcrowding Among Alabama Female Prisoners
9/19/03
Author(s): Tim Roche
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Education and Incarceration
8/1/03
Author(s): Bruce Western, Vincent Schiraldi & Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Books vs. Bars

Texas Tough: 3 Years Later
4/23/03
Author(s): Vincent Schiraldi & Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Deep Impact: Quantifying the Effect of Prison Expansion in the South
4/4/03
Author(s): Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Cutting Correctly in Maryland
2/20/03
Author(s): Judith Greene & Timothy Roche
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and It's Impact on African American Men
9/1/02
Author(s): Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
In partnership with: University of Akron
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Returning Adult Offenders in DC: A Road Map to Neighborhood Based Reentry
4/1/02
Author(s): Timothy Roche, VIncent Schiraldi, and Jason Ziedenberg, Leonard Berman
In partnership with: Technical Assistance Report for the DC Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC), Open Society Institute in Collaboration with the Center on Crime, Community and Culture's DC Prisoners Legal Services Project
Topic(s): Adult Corrections   

Cutting Correctly: New Prison Policies for Times of Fiscal Crisis
2/12/02
Author(s): Judith Greene and Vincent Schiraldi
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Studies on Halfway Houses
1/1/02
Author(s): Lisa Feldman
In partnership with: DC Prisoners Legal Services
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Too Little Too Late: President Clinton's Prison Legacy
2/1/01
Author(s): Lisa Feldman, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Texas Tough: An Analysis of Incarceration and Crime Trends in The Lone Star State
10/1/00
Author(s): Dana Kaplan, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

The Punishing Decade: Prison and Jail Estimates at the Millennium
5/1/00
Author(s): Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

America's One Million Nonviolent Prisoners
3/1/99
Author(s): John Irwin, Phd, Vincent Shiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Half-Truths:The Complicated Story of D.C.'s Halfway House "Escapees"
3/1/99
Author(s): Katherine Kravetz, Teresa Rowland, Vincent Schiraldi, Jason Ziedenberg, Eric Lotke, Marissa Ballinger
In partnership with: DC Prisoners Legal Services
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 

Striking Out: The Failure of California’s “Three Strikes and You’re Out” Law
3/1/99
Author(s): Mike Males, Dan Macallair, and Khaled Taqi-Eddin
Topic(s): Adult Corrections 


Fact Sheets 

Fact Sheet: The Obama Administration’s 2011 Budget:
More Policing, Prisons, and Punitive Policies
2/17/10
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Public Safety, Juvenile Justice, Adult Corrections, Books vs. Bars, Drug Policy

Fact Sheet: FY2010 Department of Justice Budget:
More of the Same

05/12/09
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Public Safety, Juvenile Justice, Adult Corrections, Books vs. Bars, Drug Policy

Fact Sheet: Effective Investments in Public Safety: Education
2/2/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Public Safety, Books vs. Bars

Fact Sheet: Effective Investments in Public Safety: Drug Treatment
2/2/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Public Safety, Drug Policy

Fact Sheet: Effective Investments in Public Safety: Mass Incarceration and Longer Sentences Fail to Make Us Safer
2/2/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Public Safety

Fact Sheet: Effective Investments in Public Safety: Unemployment, Wages, and the Crime Rate
2/2/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Public Safety

Fact Sheet: Percent Change in Incarceration and Crime Rates - State by State 1994-2004
2/2/07
Author(s): Justice Policy Institute
Topic(s): Adult Corrections, Public Safety