Report | Corrections spending | Investing in prevention | Sentencing | August 2011 By the American Civil Liberties Union Since President Richard Nixon first announced the “War on Drugs” forty years ago, the United States has adopted “tough on crime” criminal justice policies that have given it the dubious distinction of having the highest incarceration [...]
Report | Corrections spending | January 2012 (updated) By the Vera Institute Persistent fiscal challenges in the United States have spurred greater scrutiny of government spending. States’ corrections expenditures, which have nearly quadrupled over the past two decades, are receiving considerable attention. These circumstances make it crucial for policy makers and the public to understand [...]
Report | Corrections spending | Privatization | February 15, 2012 By the Michigan Corrections Organization Private prisons look at first like an attractive idea, promising savings to cash-strapped states whose leaders are frustrated by the high cost of corrections. However, 30 years of experience show that when prisons are turned over to for-profit corporations, cost [...]
Report | Aging prisoners | Corrections costs | Lifers | Sentencing | Parole | June 2012 By the American Civil Liberties Union The United states is the largest incarcerator in the world, with 2.3 million people behind bars. Prisoners across the country are also getting older and experiencing all the same ailments that afflict those [...]
Research | Length of stay | Corrections spending | Sentencing | Parole | June 2012 By the Pew Center on the States, Public Safety Performance Project Over the past four decades, criminal justice policy in the United States was guided largely by a central premise: the best way to protect the public was to put [...]
Michigan’s extraordinarily long average prison length of stay is a key factor driving corrections costs. CAPPS summary of four research reports on average prison length of stay, including its own, shows the policies driving up length of stay and the consequences for corrections spending. Read>> Four research reports on LOS summary
Report | Aging prisoners | Corrections costs | Lifers | Sentencing | Parole | June 2012 By the American Civil Liberties Union The United states is the largest incarcerator in the world, with 2.3 million people behind bars. Prisoners across the country are also getting older and experiencing all the same ailments that afflict those [...]
Research | Length of stay | Corrections spending | Sentencing | Parole | June 2012 By the Pew Center on the States, Public Safety Performance Project Over the past four decades, criminal justice policy in the United States was guided largely by a central premise: the best way to protect the public was to put [...]
Juveniles | 2012 by Deborah LaBelle, Director, Juvenile Life Without Parole Initiative, Anna Phillips, Research Coordinator and Laural Horton, Research Assistant An excerpt from the report: “Despite a global consensus that children cannot be held to the same standards of responsibility as adults, in the last twenty years the trend in the United States has been [...]
An analysis of 76,721 cases of Michigan prisoners sentenced to indeterminate terms after 1981 and released for the first time from 1986 through 1999. The results show that continuing to incarcerate people who have served their minimum sentences for an additional year or two doesn't significantly improve public safety. Examining re-offense rates by offense type [...]