Criminal Justice (Adult)
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[REPORTS 2018] The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting: A Case Study in Safely Reducing Long Prison Terms and Saving Taxpayer Dollars
- Nov 15, 2018
- The Ungers, 5 Years and Counting
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[POLICY BRIEFS 2018] Maryland Justice Reinvestment Act: One Year Later
- Oct 31, 2018
- Maryland Justice Reinvestment Act
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[REPORTS 2018] Smart, Safe, and Fair: Strategies to Prevent Youth Violence, Heal Victims of Crime, and Reduce Racial Inequality
- Sep 4, 2018
- [Reports 2018] Smart, Safe, and Fair: Strategies to Prevent Youth Violence, Heal Victims of Crime,…
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[REPORTS 2017] The Cost of Crimmigration: Exploring the Intersection Between Criminal Justice and Immigration
- Justice Policy Institute, Jun 13, 2017
- Exploring the intersection between criminal justice and immigration
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How ‘Raise the Age’ Laws Might Reduce Recidivism
- Teresa Wiltz, May 31, 2017
- Citing JPI's Raise the Age report.
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[REPORTS 2016] Improving Approaches to Serving Young Adults in the Justice System
- Justice Policy Institute, Dec 7, 2016
- JPI convened advocates, policymakers, practitioners, funders, and directly impacted individuals to…
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Crime Statistics and Holistic Violence Prevention
- Justice Policy Institute, Sep 26, 2016
- As homicides increase in America, learn how we can invest in holistic approaches in violence…
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[REPORTS 2016] Defining Violence: Reducing Incarceration by Rethinking America's Approach to Violence
- Aug 23, 2016
- In Defining Violence, JPI says it's impossible the U.S. will be able to lower its incarceration…
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Parole Perspectives in Maryland: A Survey of People Who Returned to Prison from Parole and Community Supervision Agents
- May 12, 2015
- A new analysis from JPI shows the connection between efforts to reduce prison populations, connect…
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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…
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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…
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JPI "Maryland Month" Series
- Oct 1, 2014
- JPI named September 2014 "Maryland Month" and published a series of factsheets and graphics…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Incarceration Generation Timeline
- JPI, Jun 24, 2013
- The Justice Policy Institute's 2013 published "Incarceration Generation," a coffee-table book of…
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Measured Responses: Why increasing law enforcement in schools is not an effective public safety response to the Newtown tragedy
- Dec 22, 2012
- In light of the horrific school shootings this month in Newtown, Connecticut, some have called for…
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Drop in Crime Continues in the U.S.
- Nov 1, 2012
- Crime continues to drop throughout the United States, according to the full 2011 Uniform Crime…
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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…
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Bailing on Baltimore: Voices from the Front Lines of the Justice System
- Jean Chung, Sep 26, 2012
- Third report in the series on bail that connects the first two quantitative reports on money bail…
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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…
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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…
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United States Continuing to Overspend on Police, Despite Decreasing Crime Rates
- Justice Policy Institute, May 22, 2012
- Although crime rates are at the lowest they have been in over 30 years, the number of arrests has…
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Wrong Track for Savings: How Florida’s prison population became a runaway train, and why better policies, not private prisons, can put the brakes on correctional costs
- Justice Policy Institute, Feb 7, 2012
- How Florida’s prison population became a runaway train, and why better policies, not private…
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When Treatment is Punishment: The Effects of Maryland's Incompetency to Stand Trial Policies and Practices
- Nastassia Walsh, Justice Policy Institute, Oct 12, 2011
- In FY2010, the Maryland Mental Hygiene Administration provided 789 pretrial screenings and…
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