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COVID Behind Bars Data Project

COVID Behind Bars Data Project

This project tracks COVID-19 cases, deaths, tests and vaccinations across more than 1,700 state, federal, county and immigration detention facilities.
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Incarceration Trends

Incarceration Trends

Vera's Incarceration Trends tool combines Bureau of Justice Statistics jail and prison data with Vera's own research to provide county- and state-level incarceration statistics dating to 1970.
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CourtListener and RECAP

CourtListener and RECAP

CourtListener is a free, searchable database of millions of court opinions plus a growing archive of oral arguments and judicial financial disclosures.
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U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Sentencing Commission

The commission collects data from every federal case sentenced under the guidelines and publishes it through its annual Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics and Interactive Data Analyzer.
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TRAC

TRAC

TRAC is a data-gathering and research center at Syracuse University that has tracked federal enforcement, courts and staffing since 1989.
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Gun Violence Archive

Gun Violence Archive

This collection of data sets hosted on Figshare use information from the Gun Violence Archive and offer a log of gun violence incidents in the United States.
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Datasets for Justice Innovation

Datasets for Justice Innovation

The Stanford Legal Design Lab made this page of data sets available for those “working on justice and poverty innovation.”
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The Alert Desk

The Alert Desk

GLAAD's Anti-LGBTQ Extremism Reporting Tracker keeps track of reported anti-LGBTQ incidents in the United States, and how they vary by location since 2022.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

OCCRP's Aleph Pro is a searchable archive of public records, leaks, and investigative data designed to track organized crime and corruption worldwide.
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The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

NACJD offers a variety of criminal justice data sets, like the Annual Survey of Jails Data series and the National Crime Victimization Survey series.
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Conflict Data

Conflict Data

ACLED's Conflict Data page offers both aggregated data and specific subsets of data to download.
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K-12 School Shooting Database

K-12 School Shooting Database

The K-12 School Shooting Database tracks school shootings from 1996 to present day.
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