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National Reports and Publications

• Unequal Under the Law: Racial Profiling In Louisiana
  Liza Grote, The American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana, August 2008
• Disparity By Geography: The War on Drugs in America’s Cities
  Ryan S. King, The Sentencing Project, May 2008
• Targeting Blacks: Drug Law Enforcement and Race in the United States
  Human Rights Watch, May 2008
• One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008
  The Pew Center on the States
• Judging Maryland: Baltimore Judges on Effective Solutions to Working with Substance Abusers in the Criminal Justice System
  Justice Policy Institute, March 2008
• A 25-Year Quagmire:The War on Drugs and Its Impact on American Society
  Marc Mauer and Ryan S. King, The Sentencing Project, September 2007
• The Vortex: The Concentrated Racial Impact of Drug Imprisonment and the Characteristics of Punitive Counties
  Justice Policy Institute, December 2007

Ohio Reports and Publications

• Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Re-Entry Court flyer
• Reentry Advocate – March 2008
  Greater Cleveland Strategy
• Selective Enforcement of Drug Laws in Cuyahoga County, Ohio: A Report on the Racial Effects of Geographic Disparities in Arrest Patterns
  Professor Mona Lynch, Department of Justice Studies, San Jose State University, November 2007
  Read the Press Release announcing the report – 8/6/2008
  
• • Cuyahoga County Grand Jury Reports
    • Grand Jury Report – Rev. Marvin McMickle – February 2002
    • Grand Jury Report – Dorothy McCombs – December 2002
    • Grand Jury Report – Phyllis Crocker – May 2003
    • Grand Jury Report – Judge C. Ellen Connally – April 2006
  • Cuyahoga County Grand Jury Related Materials
    • Judge Burt W. Griffin’s Charge to the Grand Jury – 2003
    • Grand jury members say they felt pressured to OK indictments – Cleveland Plain Dealer, Scott Hiaasen and Karl Turner – January 16, 2003
    • Appointed but (Nearly) Prevented From Serving; My Experiences as a Grand Jury Foreperson
      Phyllis Crocker, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law – Fall, 2004
  • Cuyahoga County Drug Use Reports
    • Snapshot: Cleveland, Ohio; PulseCheck – January 2004
    • The Use of GIS and Spatial Analysis in Responding to Community Concerns about Local Drug Markets – The Center on Urban Poverty – September 2005 (PowerPoint file)
    • Surveillance of Drug Abuse Trends in the State of Ohio – June 2006
    • Surveillance of Drug Abuse Trends in the State of Ohio – January 2007
    • Profile of Drug Indicators: Cleveland, Ohio – Office of National Drug Control Policy – February 2007

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