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.


Urban Institute · 19 December 2016 English

After four decades of soaring prison growth and stubbornly high recidivism rates, the United States is rethinking its heavy reliance on incarceration. This shift has been led by the states, …


Urban Institute · 4 June 2016 English

The Safer Return demonstration, implemented in the high-density prisoner reentry neighborhood of Chicago, Garfield Park, was designed to promote successful reentry by addressing key individual needs, introducing system reforms, and …


CBA: Canadian Bar Association · 10 February 2023 English

The graph shows the percentage of the federally incarcerated population that identifies as non-Indig- enous has been decreasing (from 79.5% in 2009 to 69.9% in 2019) while the percentage of …




TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary 4 I. Youth Incarceration Overview 5 II. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Youth Incarceration 7 A. Black-White Disparities 7 B. Latinx-White Disparities 8 C. American …


Related publications by The Sentencing Project: • Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist (2021) • Youth Justice Under the Coronavirus: Linking Public Health Protections with the Movement for Youth Decarceration …