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Getting Out and Staying Out 2018- 2019 Edition 2018-2019 GOSO
San Francisco Women's Justice Reform Initiative.pdf
California Reentry Council Network: CRCN 2015-2016 Directory.pdf
San Francisco Sentencing Commission
Community Corrections Partnership: Three Years of Realignment in San Francisco: February 2015
Local Homeless Coordinating Board
My Prop 47
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance (FCO) - Emplolyment Provisions
Womens Resource Guide.pdf
San Francisco Family Support Network

Resources for Veterans

Legislative Resources

California Senate Public Safety Committee
California Assembly Public Safety Committee
Friends Committee on Legislation of California: Lifecycle of a Bill

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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