AV Web Cast : Reducing Recidivism
This video explores how states can break the cycle of recidivism by implementing evidence-based programs and policies including risk assessment, fiscal incentives and swift and certain sanctions.
View ArticlePress Release : Report Outlines Comprehensive Public Safety Approach
This report recommends a number of strategic reforms in criminal justice policy to reduce violent crime statewide by 10 percent by 2016 and provide post-prison supervision for all felons while...
View ArticleReport : The Impact of California’s Probation Performance Incentive Funding...
While much attention has been focused on California’s “three strikes” law and its high parole recidivism rate as the sources of prison growth, a far less well known driver of prison admissions has been...
View ArticlePress Release : Pew Applauds Georgia Leaders for Enacting Comprehensive...
The far-reaching package of reforms Governor Nathan Deal signed into law places Georgia among a growing number of states leading the way towards data-driven, fiscally sound criminal justice systems.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Deal Signs Bill Revamping Many Criminal Sentences
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quotes Adam Gelb, director of Pew's Public Safety Performance Project at Pew Center on the States, on the bipartisan consensus behind the new Georgia sentencing reform...
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Missouri Legislature Passes Sentencing, Parole Guidelines
The Public Safety Performance Project is quoted in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on the passing of new sentencing and parole guidelines in Missouri.
View ArticlePress Release : New Pew Study Finds 36 Percent Increase in Prison Time Served
According to a report released by the Pew Center on the States’ Public Safety Performance Project, prisoners released in 2009 served an average of nine additional months in custody, or 36 percent...
View ArticleReport : Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms
According to a new study by Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, the length of time served in prison has increased markedly over the last two decades. Prisoners released in 2009 served an average...
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleMedia Coverage : Editorial: Shrinking Prisons, Saving Billions
An editorial in the Sunday, March 24 edition of the New York Times cited Pew's research about the shrinking prison population.
View ArticleReport : Georgia’s 2013 Juvenile Justice Reform
Following a criminal justice overhaul in 2012, Georgia enacted House Bill 242 in 2013, which included wide-ranging reforms to its juvenile justice system based on recommendations from the Special...
View ArticleReport : Georgia’s 2013 Juvenile Justice Reform
Following a criminal justice overhaul in 2012, Georgia enacted House Bill 242 in 2013, which included wide-ranging reforms to its juvenile justice system based on recommendations from the Special...
View ArticleReport : Georgia’s 2013 Juvenile Justice Reform
Following a criminal justice overhaul in 2012, Georgia enacted House Bill 242 in 2013, which included wide-ranging reforms to its juvenile justice system based on recommendations from the Special...
View ArticleReport : Georgia’s 2013 Juvenile Justice Reform
Following a criminal justice overhaul in 2012, Georgia enacted House Bill 242 in 2013, which included wide-ranging reforms to its juvenile justice system based on recommendations from the Special...
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