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December 9, 2020
Lots of great updates from CCJ's National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice
I noted here a few month ago that the Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ) had launched an important, timely and impressive new commission titled the "National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice" and headed by two former US Attorneys General. That commission has already helped support and has produced a number of important works (examples here and here), and I see that the commission now has a lot of new/updated work linked on the bottom of this webpage. Here are links to what's there:
Impact Report: COVID-19 and Crime
Two researchers evaluating crime trends in 27 American cities during the pandemic and social unrest over police violence presented new findings through October 2020 in a report for the Commission.
A report by researchers with the NYU Public Safety Lab, based on data from 375 jails across 39 states, examined changes in jail populations, their composition, and rebooking trends from Jan. 1 through late October.
Advancing knowledge about the impacts of COVID-19 on state and federal prisons, a report to the Commission updates a previous report on rates of COVID-19 infection and mortality in correctional facilities and describes differences in such rates among states.
December 9, 2020 at 01:56 PM | Permalink
