Correction/Detention Services

A report from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs-Bureau of Justice Statistics. September 2014, NCJ 247282

The data presented here are from the State Health Care Spending Project’s 50-state analysis of prison health care spending from fiscal 2007 to 2011.

Reports include:
Key Summaries
Classification
Drug Treatment Program Evaluations
Education and Training Program Evaluations
Equity and Diversity Issues
General Program Evaluations
Prison Management
Public vs. Private Prisons
Prison Conditions and Environment
Recidivism

Locate inmate, population, and staff statistics.

Research and reports related to many critical issues in corrections today.

The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by promoting reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and advocating for alternatives to incarceration.

"Prisons in these 17 States are Over Capacity" article ftom the Washington Post.Written by Reid Wilson- September 20, 2014

The Prison Policy Initiative documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and the national welfare in order to empower the public to improve criminal justice policy.

The Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics brings together data from more than 100 published and unpublished sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. Since 1973, the project has been located at the University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice, and compiled and managed by staff at the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center in Albany, New York.

The Vera Institute of Justice combines research, technical assistance, and demonstration projects to help leaders in civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety

California's "Prison Law Office represents individual prisoners, engages in class action and other impact litigation, educates the public about prison conditions, and provides assistance to attorneys throughout the country".

The ACLU National Prison Project is dedicated to ensuring that our nation’s prisons, jails, and other places of detention comply with the Constitution, domestic law, and international human rights principles, and to ending the policies that have given the United States the highest incarceration rate in the world.

A variety of Web resources related to the rights of inmates while behind bars. Many of these laws relate to fundamental human rights and civil liberties.

An overview of prisons and prisoner rights.

The Prisoners’ Rights Project (PRP) protects the legal rights of prisoners in the New York City jails and the New York State prisons through litigation, advice and assistance to individual prisoners, legislative advocacy and public education.

Use this page to search all of PLN's content, which includes all articles published in PLN since 1990. Resources are available for sexual abuse, overcrowding, prison conditions, statistics, and more.