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 · 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 …


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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 …


Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice · 23 August 2019 English

The inmate may not • The willingness of the offender’s family to allow the pose a threat to society or himself, and must be super- offender, if he is paroled, …


Urban Institute · 4 June 2016 English

Truth in sentencing (TIS) refers to a variety of policies aimed at reducing the difference between sentences imposed and the actual time offenders serve in prison. Federal TIS initiatives within …


Urban Institute · 12 January 2022 English

Many states have enacted comprehensive justice system reforms to reduce the use of incarceration and community supervision with the aim of focusing resources on people at higher risk of reoffending …