The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), and the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics have released a new report — National Survey of Prison Health Care: Selected Findings. This report presents selected findings on admissions testing for infectious disease, cardiovascular risk factors, and mental health conditions […]
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Unjust: How the Broken Juvenile and Criminal Justice Systems Fail LGBTQ Youth
This report examines the overrepresentation, vulnerability to discrimination, profiling, and mistreatment that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth experience in the juvenile and criminal justice systems, particularly in court proceedings, detention, and reentry. Coauthored by the Movement Advancement Project and the Center for American Progress, the report also identifies pervasive anti-LGBTQ stigma and discrimination […]
Lessons in Reentry from Successful Programs and Participants
ICF International has released “Lessons in Reentry from Successful Programs and Participants: The Final Report of the Reentry Employment Opportunities Benchmarking Study.” This report summarizes findings from a yearlong study of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) program. The report highlights strategies that successful REO grantees use to help justice-involved youth and […]
The Importance of Treating for Trauma in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth
Research over the past several decades has established that youth exposure to violence is a widespread and significant problem. This is particularly true for youth involved in the juvenile justice system, as research has shown that up to 90 percent of these youth have histories of violence exposure, with many reporting multiple serious incidents. Violence […]
Police, Jails, and Vulnerable People: New Strategies for Confronting Today’s Challenges
The Criminal Justice Institute at the University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) and the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin have released videos and a report that focus on issues examining pretrial policies and procedures from a suspect’s arrest to trial. The resources stem from a statewide […]
Recidivism Following Mental Health Court Exit: Between and Within-Group Comparisons
New research from North Carolina State University finds that mental health courts are effective at reducing repeat offending, and limiting related jail time, for people with mental health problems — especially those who also have substance use problems. For their study, researchers evaluated 97 people in Minnesota who had mental health problems and had committed […]