The Marshall Project is a non-profit online news organization that provides comprehensive coverage of America's criminal justice system
The ACLU provides some interesting information on Parole and Release
Recession AND 2008 AND Drug Abuse
Use synonyms to expand your search:
Employment OR Unemployment
Prison OR Jail
Use the wildcard character (*) for more results
Parol* = Parole, Parolee, Paroled, etc.
Use "quotation marks" to search an exact phrase:
"Reading Pennsylvania"
Government publications are great for research:
*Tips for searching government publications:
Instead of using the search bar, first look for Topics or Subjects to see how the site is organized. You can also look for Archives and/or Reports for quick access to data
Our ProQuest database to access the The New York Times (it searches like a database, not like NYTimes.com)
For articles written during the time period of the book, use the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database to access older issues of The New York Times
But what does the data mean???
The following information comes from The Federal Bureau of Prisons:
Inmate Race (Updated weekly. Last updated 4/26/25)
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