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 · 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 · 31 October 2023 English

This report describes reforms that states and local jus- This report will highlight state and local laws, policies tice systems can and should adopt to combat the over- and practices …


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 …


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 …


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 …