"Understanding criminal justice-involved populations and their reentry is critical to understanding urban poverty. Nationwide, roughly 650,000 individuals return from state and federal prisons to their communities each year. This amounts to about 10,000 individuals returning a week or 75 individuals returning an hour. While these numbers may be hard to digest in the abstract, they have a profound impact on the communities to which individuals return—often low-income communities of color that are ill-equipped to confront the systemic barriers that impede successful reentry."

How do we assess the relative safety of our institutions?

We review Chronological Disciplinary Records (CDR), which includes information such as: Serious assaults involving serious physical injury or threat of serious injury (Prohibited Act 101), Less serious assaults (Prohibited Act 224)

We look at the number of assaults that occur per 5,000 inmates - known as the "rate of assaults."

We look at these numbers throughout different points in time to eliminate any correlation between the rate of assaults and the size of the inmate population.

An accountability-based graduated series of sanctions (including incentives, treatment, and services) applicable to juveniles within the juvenile justice system to hold such juveniles accountable for their actions and to protect communities from the effects of juvenile delinquency by providing appropriate sanctions for every act for which a juvenile is adjudicated delinquent, by inducing their law-abiding behavior, and by preventing their subsequent involvement with the juvenile justice system.

Youth and The Juvenile Justice System National Report (2022).

This brief discusses supervision strategies for youth under parole or probation supervision that reduce the likelihood of them entering or returning to a juvenile detention facility.

"Effective January 13, 2009 the MADOC began the process of double bunking inmates in cells at SBCC. On June 1, 2009 MADOC’s MCI Cedar Junction became the Department’s reception center, designating one unit as medium security to hold 72 inmates while the other units remained maximum security. From the data presented, it would appear that these institutional changes impacted the occurrences of assaults of both facilities with initial changes beginning to occur in July of 2009."

"This report looks at patterns of imprisonment in ten contrasting jurisdictions across all five continents of the world, namely: Kenya and South Africa in Africa, Brazil and the United States in the Americas, India and Thailand in Asia, England and Wales, Hungary and the Netherlands in Europe, Australia in Oceania. Over the course of the report, we present a brief history of imprisonment in each of the ten countries, and consider what lessons might be learnt for reducing use of custody worldwide."

A drop down menu tool used to retrieve different world wide prison statistics.

"Louisiana has been called “the world’s prison capital. The state imprisons more of its people, per head, than any of its U.S. counterparts. First among Americans means first in the world.” But in the global context, how far behind are the other 49 states, really? This report finds that the disturbing answer is “Not very far.”"