Public Safety Policies
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Public Safety Policies
Link | Description |
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| 2024 Report from the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code | The Committee on Revision of the Penal Code has released its 2024 Annual Report. The report describes the Committee's work and recommendations for the upcoming legislative cycle. |
| 30 Percent of California’s Firefighters are Prisoners (Mother Jones, 2015) | For years, California’s prison system has operated a number of “conservation camps,” in which low-level felons in the state prison system volunteer to do manual labor outside, like clearing brush to prevent forest fires or fighting the fires themselves. A handful of other states have similar programs, but California’s program is by far the largest, with roughly 4,000 participants. |
| Disproportionate Minority Presence on U.S. Sex Offender Registry | U.S. crime policies of the last thirty years have exerted a disproportionate impact on minority offenders. However, registered minority sex offenders are one segment of this population who have received very little attention in empirical research. The current study is an attempt to fill in this gap. |
| Inmates Fighting California Wildfires Are More Likely to Get Hurt, Records Show (Time, 2018) | Roughly 1,500 prison inmates have stepped up in the last 24 hours to combat the fires as part of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) volunteer firefighting program, called the Conservation Camp Program. For them, the dangers can prove disastrous—even deadly. |
| PrisonPolicy.org | The non-profit, non-partisan Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society. |
| The Future of Parole Release | The Future of Parole Release: A Ten Point Parole Plan, by Joan Petersilia, et al. |
| The Sentencing Project | The Sentencing Project advocates for effective and humane responses to crime that minimize imprisonment and criminalization of youth and adults by promoting racial, ethnic, economic, and gender justice. |
| Toxic Prisons and the Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration | Toxic Prisons and the Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration, by Bernd, C., Loftus-Farren, Z. & Nandini Mitra, M. (2017) |
| Vera.org | Fighting for Human Dignity |
| Who Are the People in Your Neighborhood? | A Descriptive Analysis of Individuals on Public Sex Offender Registries |