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.


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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 · 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 · 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 · 10 October 2023 English

the conditions of socioeconomic inequality that contrib- ute to higher rates of certain violent and property crimes The United States remains fully in the era of mass among people of …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 6 February 2023 English

Rapid Buildup, Modest Decline facilities fell from a peak of 109,000 in 2000 to 25,000 in 2020, a 77% decline.7 Some states are well on their way During the buildup …


TSP: Sentencing Project · 30 March 2023 English

People who have committed Vermont’s Department of Corrections reports a total crime, even violent crime, have relatively short criminal of 174 people, or 20% of the state prison population careers …