Reports

• "Criminalizing" Poverty - Important new report on how America is CRIMINALIZING POVERTY (10/13/2009).
• ACLU’s Prison & Jail Accountability Project 2006-2007 Guide [pdf]
• Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons
• Federal Report on Dallas County Jail - Report from the office of the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Wan J. Kim, on the conditions in the Dallas County Jail. This is a must read!
• National Council on Crime and Delinquency: Attitudes of US Voters toward Nonserious Offenders and Alternatives to Incarceration [pdf] (June 2009)
• Texas Commission on Jail Standards 2004 Report [pdf] - As far as we know, there is no more recent report on all these topics. The Jail Commission does do monthly reports on populations of our jails, and you can view those by clicking here.