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California Policy Lab: High Users of San Francisco's Criminal Justice System, March 2018
The Sentencing Project: Can We Wait 75 Years to Cut the Prison Population in Half?, March 2018
Pew Charitable Trusts: More Imprisonment Does Not Reduce State Drug Problems, March 8, 2018
Vera Institute for Justice: The State of Justice Reform 2017, March 1, 2018
San Francisco Collaborative Courts: SF Collaborative Courts Best Practice Standards, February 2018
Vera Institute for Justice: Divided Justice: Trends in Black and White Jail Incarceratoin, 1990-2013, February 2018
American Economic Review: The Effects of Pretrial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges, February 21, 2018
National Task Force on Fines, Fees and Bail Practices: Principles on Fines, Fees, and Bail Practices, February 20, 2018
Human Rights Watch: "Set up to Fail": The Impact of Offender-Funded Private Probation on the Poor, February 20, 2018
Columbia University Justice Lab: Too big to succeed: The impact of the growth of community corrections and what should be done about it, January 29, 2018
Prison Policy Initiative: The Gender Divide: Tracking women's state prison growth, January 9, 2018
Collateral Consequences Resource Center: Second Chance Reforms in 2017: Roundup of new expungement and restoration laws, December 2017
Positive Women's Network: HIV criminalization: know your rights, December 2017
Megan Stevenson, George Mason University: Assessing Risk Assessment in Action, December 8, 2017
The Sentencing Project: Opioids: Treating an Illness, Ending a War, December 2017
Californians for Safety and Justice: Safe and Sound: Strategies to Save a Billion in PrisonCosts and Build New Safety Solutions, December 2017
Public Policy Institute of California: Realignment and Recidivism in California, December 2017
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: White Residents of Urban Sanctuary Counties are Safer from Deadly Violence than White Residents in Non-Sanctuary Counties, December 2017
NYU Center on the Administration of Criminal Law: Disrupting the Cycle: Reimagining the Prosecutor's Role in Reentry: A Guide to Best Practices, December 2017
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: Youth Prosectured as Adults in California: Addressing Racial, Ethnic, and Geographic Disparities After the Repeal of Direct File, November 2017
University of Pretrial: The State of Pretrial Justice in America, Executive Summary, November 2017
University of Pretrial: The State of Pretrial Justice in America, November 2017
Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University: Turning Shackles into Bootstraps: Why Occupational Licensing Reform Is the Missing Piece of Criminal Justice Reform, November 6, 2017
Criminal Justice Policy Program: Harvard Law School: California Pretrial Reform: The Next Step in Realignment
Collateral Consequences Resource Center: Forgiving and Forgetting in American Justice: A 50-State Guide to Expungement and Restoration of Rights, October 2017
National Reentry Resource Center: Mentoring as a Component of Reentry: Practical Considerations from the Field, October 2017
Back on the Road California: Ability to Pay Implementation in Traffic Court Toolkit: Appendix, October 2017
Back on the Road California: Ability to Pay Implementation in Traffic Court: A Toolkit for Advocates, October 2017
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, Access to Health Care and Criminal Behavior: Short-Run Evidence from the ACA Medicaid Expansions, September 24, 2017
Justice Center: The Council of State Governments: Dos and Don'ts for Reducing Recidivism Among Young Adults in the Justice System
CESR-Schaeffer Working Paper No. 2017-005, Financing the War on Drugs: The Impact of Law Enforcement Grants on Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests, September 13, 2017
Vera Institute of Justice, Opening Doors: How to develop reentry programs using examples from public housing authorities, September 2017
Treatment Advocacy Center, Treat or Repeat: A State Survey of Serious Mental Illness, Major Crimes and Community Treatment, September 2017
Open Philanthropy Project, The impacts of incarceration on crime, September 2017
Vera Institute of Justice: Against the Odds: Experimenting with Alternative Forms of Bail in New York City's Criminal Courts, September 2017
University of Pretrial: What Pretrial Systems Look Like Without Money Bail, September 2017
Public Policy Institute of California: California Probation in the Era of Reform, August 2017
Harvard Kennedy School: Less is More: How Reducing Probation Populationd Can Improve Outcomes, August 2017
Urban Institute: A Matter of Time: The Causes and Consequences of Rising Time Served in America's Prisons, July 2017
Center for Popular Democracy: Freedom To Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security In Our Commuities, June 2017
Trone Private Sector and Education Advisory Council to the American Civil Liberties Union: Back to Business: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Seekers Benefits Your Company, June 2017
National Institute of Justice: Hidden Consequences: The Impact of Incarceration on Dependent Children, June 2017
The Financial Justice Project San Francisco: Do the Math: Money Bail Doesn't Add Up for San Francisco, June 2017
CSG Justice Center: Making People's Transition from Prison and Jail to the Community Safe and Successful: A Snapshot of National Progress in Reentry, June 8, 2017
Brennan Center for Justice: Crime in 2016: Final Year-End Data, June 6, 2017
Families Against Mandatory Minimums: Using Time to Reduce Crime: Federal Prisoner Survey Results Show Ways to Reduce Recidivism, June 2017
Center for Institutional and Social Change, Columbia Law School: Leading with Conviction: The Transformative Role of Formerly Incarcerated Leaders in Reducing Mass Incarceration, May 2017
Bail Reform in California: Bail Reform in California, May 2017
UCLA School of Law Criminal Justice Reform Clinic: the Devil in the Details: Bail Bond Contracts in California, May 2017
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice: Examining Racial Disparities in Criminal Case Outcomes among Indigent Defendants in San Francisco, May 2017
Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice: Examining Racial Disparities in Criminal Case Outcomes among Indigent Defendants in San Francisco: Summary Report, May 2017
The James Irvine Foundation: By Us, Not For Us: A Landscape Scan of the Leadership Roles of Formerly Incarcerated People and their Loved Ones in California, May 2017
The Financial Justice Project, San Francisco: Fines and Fees Task Force: Initial Findings and Recommendations: Executive Summary, May 2017
The Financial Justice Project, San Francisco: San Francisco Fines & Fees Task Force: Initial Findings and Recommendations, May 2017
Prison Policy Initiative: Era of Mass Incarceration: Why State Officals Should Fight Jail Growth, May 31, 2017
Measures for Justice: Measuring justice, one county at a time, May 2017
Vera Institute of Justice: The Price of Prisons: Examining State Spending Trends, 2010-2015, May 2017
Color of Change and ACLU's Campaign for Smart Justice: $elling Off Our Freedom: How insurance corporations have taken over our bail system
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area: Paying More for Being Poor, May 2017
L. Luster & Associates: Labor Market Analysis of San Francisco Construction Industry: A Citywide Examination and Focus on District 10, February 2017
Human Rights Watch: "Not in it for Justice": How California's Pretrial Detention and Bail System Unfairly Punishes Poor People, April 11, 2017
Center for Court Innovation: Demystifying Risk Assessment- Key Principles and Controversies, 2017
Californians for Safety & Justice: Blueprint for Shared Safety: Working together to build safety for all, 2017
Common Justice/Vera Institute of Justice: Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration, 2017
Institute for Criminal Policy Research: PRISON: Evidence of its use and over-use from around the world, March 2017
Prison Policy Initiative: Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2017, March14, 2017
Collateral Consequences Resource Center: Restrictions on access to criminal records: A national survey, March 9, 2017
Vera Institute of Justice: A New Normal: Addressing Opioid Use through the Criminal Justice System, February 2017
Urban Institute: How Do Pepole in High-Crime, Low-Income Communities View the Police? February 2017
AJPH Transgender Health: Incarceration Rates and Traits of Sexual Minorities in the United States: National Inmate Survey, 2011-2012, February 2017
California Legislative Analyst's Office: Overview of Felony Sentencing in California, February 27, 2017
California Legislative Analyst's Office: Overview of Criminal Fine and Fee System, February 27, 2017
California Legislative Analyst's Office: Law Enforcement Oversight Processes, February 27, 2017
Pew Research Center: How Hispanic police officers view their jobs, February 15, 2017
Vera Institute of Justice: Accounting for Violence: How to Increase Safety and Break Our Failed Reliance on Mass Incarceration, February 2017
Pretrial Justice Institute: Pretrial Justice: How Much Does It Cost? January 2017
New Thinking in Community Corrections: Shackled to Debt, January 2017
Stepping Up Initiative: Reducing the Number of People with Mental Illnesses in Jail: Six Questions County Leaders Need to Ask, January 2017
University of Pretrial: Have you asked them? Talking to defendants about money bond and pretrial release, 2017
Prison Policy Initiative: Following the Money of Mass Incarceration, January 25, 2017
Georgetown Law Journal: Obey All Laws and Be Good: Probation and the Meaning of Recidivism, 2016
New Thinking in Community Corrections: Building Trust and Legitimacy Within Community Corrections, December 2016
Economic Policy Institute: Mass incarceration and children's outcomes: Criminal justice policy is education policy, December 15, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative: Reinstating Common Sense: How driver's license suspensions for drug offenses unrelated to driving are falling out of favor, December 12, 2016
Criminal Justice Program, Harvard Law School: Moving Beyond Money: A Primer on Bail Reform, October 2016
All of Us or None/Legal Services for Prisoners with Children: Ban the Box in Employment: A Grassroots History, 2016
Root & Rebound: California Employers' Fair Chance Hiring Toolkit, September 2016
Californians for Safety & Justice: Understanding County Budgeting After Proposition 47: A Toolkit for Advocates to Improve Local Investments in New Safety Priorities, September 2016
National Employment Law Project: Racial Profiling in Hiring: A Critique of New "Ban the Box" Studies, August 2016
The Federal Interagency Reentry Council: A Record of Progress and a Roadmap for the Future, August 2016
National Institute of Corrections: Myths & Facts: Why Incarceration Is Not the Best Way to Keep Communities Safe, August 2016
Frameworks Institute: New Narratives: Changing the Frame on Crime and Justice, July 2016
Center for American Progress: Disabled Behind Bars: The Mass Incarceration of People With Disabilities in America's Jails and Prisons, July 2016
American Constitution Society, The Gavel Gap: Who Sits in Judgment on State Courts?, July 2016
City and County of San Francisco: Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement
Crime and Justice Institute: Exploring the Relationship Between Time in Pretrial Detention and Four Outcomes, June 2016
Michigan Law: Ban the Box, Criminal Records, and Statistical Discrimination: A Field Experiment, June 2016
Crime and Justice Institute: Analyzing Bond Supervision Survey Data: The Effects of Pretrial Detention on Self-Reported Outcomes, June 2016
Office of the San Francisco District Attorney: Justice that Heals: Promoting Behavioral Health, Safeguarding the Public, and Ending Our Overreliance on Jails, June 2016
Prison Policy Initiative: States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2016, June 16, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative, Correctional Control: Incarceration and supervision by state, June 1, 2016
Prison Activist Resource Center: Prisoner Resource Directory, May 2016
Californians for Safety and Justice, County Health Coverage: Enrollment Efforts for California's Justice-Involved Populations, May 2016
Vera Institute of Justice: Justice in Review: New Trends in State Sentencing and Corrections 2014-2015, May 2016
Prison Policy Initiative: Detaining the Poor: How money bail perpetuates an endless cycle of poverty and jail time, May 10, 2016
Californians for Safety and Justice: Victims of Crime Act and the Need for Advocacy: A Tookit for Advocates and Victims Services Providers to Ensure Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Funds Reach Underserved Crime Victims, May 2016
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: The Importance of Medicaid Coverage for Criminal Justice Involved Individuals Reentering Their Communities, April 28, 2016
Prison Policy Initiative: The Crippling Effect of Incarceration on Wealth: April 26, 2016
Californians for Safety and Justice, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights: Helping Immigrant Clients with Proposition 47 and Other Post-Conviction Legal Options: A Guide for Legal Service Providers, April 2016
National Employment Law Project: Unlicensed & Untapped: Removing Barriers to State Occupational Licenses for People with Records, April 26, 2016
The Annie E. Casey Foundation: A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarcertaion on Kids, Familes and Communities, April 2016
US Department of Justice: Roadmap to Reentry: Reducing Recidivism Through Reentry Reforms at the Federal Bureau of Prisons, April 2016
Brennan Center for Justice: Crime in 2015: A Final Analysis, April 20, 2016
Back on the Road California: Stopped, Fined, Arrested: Racial Bias in Policing and Traffic Courts in California, April 2016
US Department of Health and Human Services: Multi-Site Family Study on Incarceration, Parenting and Partnering, March 2016
UCLA Labor Center: Get To Work of Go To Jail, March 2016
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC): How Has Proposition 47 Affected California's Jail Population? March 2016
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: Is Proposition 47 to Blame for California's 2015 Increase in Urban Crime? March 2016
Children, Parents, and Incarceration: Descriptive Overview of Data from Alameda and SF County Jails, March 2016
Executive Summary: Children, Parents, and Incarceration, March 2016
Prison Policy Initiative: Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2016, March 2016
Race and Social Problems: Race, Wealth and Incarceration: Results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, February 15, 2016
grassroots leadership: Incorrect Care: A Prison Profiteer Turns Care into Confinement, February 2016
Center for American Progress: Unjust: How the Broken Criminal Justice System Fails LGBT People, February 2016
Legislative Analyst's Office: The 2016-17 Budget: Fiscal Impacts of Proposition 47
New York State Bar Association: Special Committee on Re-Entry, January 2016
California Budget & Policy Center Issue Brief: Governor's Estimate of State Savings From Proposition 47 Raises Questions February 2016
Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, City and County of San Francisco: San Francisco Office of Housing Resource Guide.pdf, January 28, 2016
Vera Institute of Justice: First-Episode Incarceration: Creating a Recovery-Informed Framework for Integrated Mental Health and Criminal Justice Responses
Grassroots Leadership: Locked Up & Shipped Away: Interstate Prisoner Transfers and the Private Prison Industry: Winter 2016 Update
Coalition on Homelessness: Punishing the Poorest: How the Criminalization of Homelessness Perpetuates Poverty in San Francisco
2015 San Francisco Homeless Count
Breaking the Cycle of Crime
Brennan Center for Justice: Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Jails: Recommendations for Local Practice
Our Children, Our Families Council: Data Report
Californians for Safety and Justice: Toolkit: Meeting the Needs of Women in California's County Justice Systems
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design: Who Pays: The True Cost of Incarceration on Families: Executive Summary
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Forward Together, and Research Action Design: Who Pays: The True Cost of Incarceration on Families: Full Report
Prison Policy Initiative: The Racial Geography of Mass Incarceration
Public Policy Institute of California:Public Safety Realignment: Impacts So Far
Brennan Center for Justice: The Reverse Mass Incarceration Act
Black & Pink: Coming Out of Concrete Closets
Equal Justice Under Law: Bail Schedule Class Action Law Suit
Prison Policy Initiative: Separation by Bars and Miles: Visitation in state prisons
Urban Institute: How to reduce the federal prison population
Child Trends: Parents Behind Bars: What Happens to Their Children?
Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity: State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review 2015
Prison Policy Initiative: States of Women’s Incarceration: The Global Context
Dignity & Power Now: Breaking the Silence: Civil and Human Rights Violations Resulting from Medical Neglect and Abuse of Women of Color in Los Angeles County Jails
Stanford Law School, Stanford Justice Advocacy Project: Proposition 47 Progress Report: Year One Implementation: October 2015
University of Pretrial: Pretrial Webcast Series: Foundations of Pretrial Justice; Pretrial Risk Assessment & Risk Management; Addressing Pretrial Racial & Ethnic Disparities
Vera Institute of Justice: In our Own Backyard: Confronting Growth and Disparities in American Jails: December 2015
California Budget & Policy Center: Sentencing in California: Moving Toward a Smarter, More Cost-Effective Approach December 2015
Stanford Law School, Three Strikes Project: When did prisons become acceptable mental healthcare facilities?

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