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The Right Investment? Corrections Spending in Baltimore City: Feb 25, 2015; According to a new report released today by the Justice Policy Institute and the Prison Policy…
Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration: Dec 9, 2014; Our new report, Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration, provides…
Billion Dollar Divide: Virginia's Sentencing, Corrections and Criminal Justice Challenge: Justice Policy Institute, Apr 2, 2014; Billion Dollar Divide points to racial disparities, skewed fiscal priorities, and missed…
Virginia's Justice System: Expensive, Ineffective and Unfair: Spike Bradford, Nov 13, 2013; Virginia's Justice System: Expensive, Ineffective and Unfair points to reforms that, if…
BAIL REFORM UPDATE 2013: Pretrial Services Programs Refined and Expanded Their Reach, while the Bail Industry Continued to Fight Forfeiture Collection and Non-financial Release: Spike Bradford, Sep 30, 2013; This brief provides an update on pretrial and bail reform over the last year as a follow up to…
Juvenile Justice Reform in Connecticut: How Collaboration and Commitment Have Improved Public Safety and Outcomes for Youth: Richard A. Mendel, Feb 27, 2013; Juvenile Justice Reform in Connecticut highlights the past two decades of Connecticut’s…
Two New Reports Show Juvenile Confinement Reform in Five States: Spike Bradford, Richard A. Mendel, Feb 27, 2013; Removing young people who engage in delinquent behavior from their homes and communities and…
JPI Bail Report Series: Oct 5, 2012; JPI published three reports on the U.S. bail system in an effort to raise public awareness on an…
For Better or For Profit: How the Bail Bonding Industry Stands in the Way of Fair and Effective Pretrial Justice: Spike Bradford, Sep 18, 2012; Second in series on bail recommends the U.S. should end for-profit bail bonding; promote and…
Bail Fail: Why the U.S. Should End the Practice of Using Money for Bail: Melissa Neal, Justice Policy Institute, Sep 11, 2012; JPI's newest analysis shows that the practice of using money to decide release while awaiting trial…
Behind the Times: President Obama's FY2013 Budget: Justice Policy Institute, Feb 16, 2012; Despite the fact that prison populations have fallen for the first time in 40 years, President…
Federal Folly: FY2012 U.S. Department of Justice Budget Gorges on Prisons, Gouges Juvenile Justice: Justice Policy Institute, Nov 21, 2011; The proposed 2012 budget for the U.S. Department of Justice puts locking people up ahead of…
System Overload: The Costs of Under-Resourcing Public Defense: Kate Taylor, Emerson National Hunger Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center, Jul 27, 2011; The overburdening of U.S. public defense systems that serve millions of people annually is…
Doing the Same Thing and Expecting Different Results: Justice Policy Institute, Feb 16, 2011; The President’s proposed FY2012 budget will do little to reduce the burden of incarceration…
Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Spending: Justice Policy Institute, Oct 28, 2010; A review of the $2 billion in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds spent on the…
Money Well Spent: How Positive Social Investments Will Reduce Incarceration Rates, Improve Public Safety, and Promote the Well-Being of Communities.: Sarah Lyons and Nastassia Walsh, Sep 16, 2010; More people in the United States are being arrested and incarcerated even though crime has dropped,…
Fact Sheet on The Obama Administration’s 2011 Budget: More Policing, Prisons, and Punitive Policies: Justice Policy Institute, Feb 22, 2010; Justice advocates disturbed by proposed $29 billion for ineffective and unfair policies.
Pruning Prisons: How Cutting Corrections Can Save Money and Protect Public Safety: Justice Policy Institute, May 19, 2009; Federal, state and local governments are spending a combined $68 billion dollars a year on a system…
Fact Sheet on FY2010 Department of Justice Budget: Justice Policy Institute, May 11, 2009; The President’s proposed FY2010 Department of Justice (DOJ) budget asks for $26.7 billion.…
Cutting Correctly in Maryland: Judith Greene & Timothy Roche, Feb 20, 2003; State officials across the nation are struggling to come to terms with the largest state budget…
Community Corrections in Ohio-Cost Savings and Program Effectiveness: Nancy Marion, Dec 1, 2002; Commuity corrections programs are generally cheaper, because they entail shorter periods of…
Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and its Impact on African American Men: Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg, Sep 1, 2002; The mild recession that began in 2001, aggravated by the events of September 11th, put state…
Cutting Correctly: New Prison Policies for Times of Fiscal Crisis: Judith Greene and Vincent Schiraldi, Feb 12, 2002; It cost nearly $40 billion to imprison approximately two million state and local inmates in 2000,…
New York State of Mind: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998: Robert Gangi, Vincent Schiraldi and Jason Ziedenberg, Oct 1, 1998; Last spring, just days before New Yorkers were to mark the 25th anniversary of the state’s…
Trading Classrooms for Cell Blocks: Destructive Policies Eroding D.C. Communities: Tara-Jen Ambrosio and Vincent Schiraldi, Feb 1, 1997; While public higher education funding plummets to record lows, spending for corrections is at an…

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