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Brennan Center for Justice (New York NY)

  • How New York City Reduced Mass Incarceration: A Model for Change?

    “Are there connections between these three shifts - a decrease in crime, a decrease in the correctional population, and a sharp increase in controv

  • Paying for Your Time: How Charging Inmates Fees Behind Bars May Violate the Excessive Fines Clause

    If you are thinking of implementing pay-for-stay, then you need to read this article.

  • What Caused the Crime Decline?

    This report "examines one of the nation’s least understood recent phenomena - the dramatic decline in crime nationwide over the past two decades -