Resources

Margo Schlanger

Wade H. and Dores M. McCree Collegiate Professor of Law
Director, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse

Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
@mjschlanger (Twitter)

My Web-Accessible Resources      

• BOP Grievance Data​​, Jan. 2000-May 2024 (​nearly 1 million rows)
  
• ​Data Liberation Data: https://www.data-liberation-project.org/datasets/federal-inmate-complaints/​​ and https://github.com/data-liberation-project/bop-inmate-complaint-data-processing/​ 
  
• ​Analysis of recent (2020-2024) grievances complaining about sexual abuse by other prisoners: tabulated ​results; R script (just paste into a .R file); R output.​​
  
• IncarcerationLaw.com (open access website that accompanies Incarceration & the Law: Cases and Materials)
  
• Immigration Detention Data, obtained by the ACLU as partial settlement of 
  ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project v. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 1:19-cv-07058-GBD (S.D.N.Y.)
  
• ICE Detentions FY2016
  
• ICE Detentions FY2017
  
• ICE Detentions FY2018
  
• ICE Detentions FY2019 (2 tabs)
  
• ICE Detentions FY2020 (through 3/2020)
  
• ICE Detention Uniform Corrective Action Plans, 2010-2018, obtained under FOIA by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández (crimmigration.com). 
  
• Excel Spreadsheet
  
• Teach-out: Civil Rights in the Trump Era.
  
• All materials
  
• Videos only (via Youtube)
  
• Solitary Confinement Reform Milestones​
  
• American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners. 
• Prison Grievance Procedures and Samples, 50 states et al.
• Prison Litigation Reform Act: Legislative History
• Seminar teaching PowerPoint: (Presentation to AALS Workshop for New Law Teachers)
• Sources and datasets on American Trial Trends
• SSRN ejournal:  Corrections & Sentencing Law & Policy
• Federal Judicial Center data on all Article III judges, 1789-April 25, 2006.
  Original (wide) data (stata format)
  Do file to clean and reformat original data
  Long form (stata format)
• Survey of jail and prison administrators
  • Department of Corrections Survey
  • Large Jail Network Survey
• Materials Written for Student Use
• Torts supplemental reading on gender:
  • What would it mean to have a reasonable woman standard
  • Imputed contributory negligence and the relation of husband and wife.
• The Difference between Jails and Prisons

Activities

• Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons (sponsored by the Vera Institute)
• ABA Criminal Justice Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners

Other Web Resources

Resources relating to empirical work about law and courts (very much a list in progress)

• American Judicature Society
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (Relevant Archived Datasets)
• National Center for State Courts: court statistics project
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• St. Louis Circuit Court Historical Records Project
• U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, On-line court records
• Federal Judicial Center: Biographies of all past and present federal judges  
• Judicial Research Initiative includes:   
  
  • U.S. Supreme Court Databases
  • United States Courts of Appeals Cases
  • Attributes of United States Appeals Court Judges, 1801-1994
  • Lower Federal Court Confirmation Database, 1977-2004
  • State Supreme Court Database
• Supreme Court Ideal Point Research (by Andrew Martin and Kevin Quinn)
• Supreme Court Justice Database (Epstein et al.)
• Supreme Court Justices' Papers:
  Library of Congress collections description
  • Blackmun papers website (Library of Congress)
  • Blackmun papers archive (currently in prototype) (Lee Epstein and Harold Spaeth)
    
• Washington University Supreme Court Forecasting Project
• Journals:
  • American Law and Economics Review
  • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies
  • Journal of Law and Economics
  • Journal of Law, Economics and Organization
  • Journal of Legal Studies
  • Justice System Journal (published by the National Center for State Courts)
  • Law and Social Inquiry
  • Law and Society Review
• Famous Trials (University of Missouri at Kansas City)
• Prison Information Project