New!! Justice Policy Institute's latest study: What Maryland is doing about drug abusers in the criminal justice system: http://www.justicepolicy.org/images/upload/08-02_REP_MDJudges_DP-MD.pdf
New!! Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Policy Briefs from the Justice Policy Institute
New: Special programs for ex-cons and ex-gang members
Homeboy Industries (a program for ex-gang members): go to this web site: http://www.homeboy-industries.org/
See related story: Now the giant awakes
Delancey Street (operated by ex-cons in San Francisco) web site: http://www.delanceystreetfoundation.org/
Insight Prison Project: http://www.insightprisonproject.org/
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Some Modest Proposals to Reduce Crime
Good Intentions or Planned Failures?
An Assessment of the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project
New!! Written in 1998, but never posted here: The Detention Diversion Advocacy Project and Girls
The Need to “Think Out of the Box”
A Sensible Approach: Gender-Responsive Strategies for Female Offenders
Mental health court seen as example for state
Study Finds Drug Treatment is Cost-Effective Alternative to Prison
Restorative Justice Section
Two stories on Restorative Justice
Grieving mother hopes motion for mercy will prevail