Decarceration Strategies and Sentencing Reform

User icon Heather Dray
15 June 2023
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Resources for Action Research project on decarceration through sentencing reform.


TSP: Sentencing Project · 31 July 2018 English

The resulting burden on the public sector – eliminated their use of private prisons due to concerns led to the modern emergence of for-profit private prisons about safety and cost …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 14 January 2021 English

CAN WE WAIT 60 YEARS TO CUT THE PRISON POPULATION IN HALF? Can We Wait 60 Years to Cut the Prison Population in Half? The U. [...] Since the coronavirus …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 25 May 2021 English

for the safe release of vulnerable people and the reduction of correction populations writ The Sentencing Project met the challenges large. [...] ing age is disenfranchised, and that rates of …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 24 May 2017 English

Prison Population Change in state and federal prison populations Jurisdiction Peak Year to 2015 Peak Year Trends 1999-2015: New Jersey -34.9% 1999New York -29.2% 1999 Modest Reductions with Alaska -27.4% …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 23 June 2016 English

Since the majority of people in prison • In Oklahoma, the state with the highest overall black are sentenced at the state level rather than the federal level, it is …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 29 August 2018 English

The state set releases whenever capacity was reached.4 A ballot the time-served requirement before eligibility for parole proposal to increase taxes for prison construction failed consideration to 100% of the …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 16 January 2019 English

In recent years a number of states have enacted reforms designed to reduce the scale of incarceration and impact of the collateral consequences of a felony conviction. [...] State policymakers …


Urban Institute · 21 April 2017 English

In 2010, South Carolina passed the Sentencing Reform Act, enacting comprehensive criminal justice reforms. One key reform encouraged the Department of Probation, Parole, and Pardon Services to employ administration responses …


CBA: Canadian Bar Association · 5 May 2023 English

Fifty percent of women in prison are Indigenous.3 This level of mass incarceration of Indigenous people in prison follows on the heels of over 100 years of residential “schools” (which …


CCPA: Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives · 23 August 2023 English

The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funders of this report. [...] The …