Through research reports and testimony, the Liman Center helps develop diverse initiatives to bring about more just legal systems. Reports and testimony are organized below by topic.
Supervised Release
"Re: Public Comment on Proposed Amendments to Supervised Release" (Comment/testimony)
February 27, 2025
Liman Center
Fiona Doherty, Judith Resnik, Kate Braner, Ibrahim Diallo, Liz Beling, Avital Fried, Katherine Salinas, Zoe Mermelstein
"Collecting Conditions: A Snapshot of Supervised Release in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut" (Report)
January 28, 2025
Liman Center/Yale Law School
Solitary Confinement
Website and Data Dashboard
Seeing Solitary
https://seeingsolitary.limancenter.yale.edu/
Liman Center
Reports
"Time-In-Cell: A 2021 Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems"
August 24, 2022
Correctional Leaders Association/Liman Center
"Time-In-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing Based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems"
September 14, 2020
Correctional Leaders Association/Liman Center
"Reforming Restrictive Housing: The 2018 Association of State Correctional Administrators-Liman Nationwide Survey of Time-in-Cell"
October 10, 2018
Association of State Correctional Administrators/Liman Center
"Working to Limit Restrictive Housing: Efforts in Four Jurisdictions to Make Changes"
October 10, 2018
Association of State Correctional Administrators/Liman Center
"Aiming to Reduce Time-in-Cell: Reports from Correctional Systems on the Numbers of Prisoners in Restricted Housing and on the Potential of Policy Changes to Bring About Reforms "
November 01, 2016
Association of State Correctional Administrators/Liman Center
"Time-in-Cell: The Liman-Association of State Correctional Administrators 2014 National Survey of Administrative Segregation in Prison"
September 01, 2015
Association of State Correctional Administrators/Liman Center
"Administrative Segregation, Degrees of Isolation, and Incarceration: A National Overview of State and Federal Correctional Policies"
June 05, 2013
Liman Center
Hope Metcalf, Jamelia Morgan, Samuel Oliker-Friedland, Judith Resnik, Julia Spiegel, Haran Tae, Alyssa Work, Brian Holbrook
Articles, comments, and testimony
"Re: S.B. 459, “An Act Concerning a Correctional Ombudsman; the Use of Isolated Confinement; Transparency; and Correctional Officers Training and Wellness, also known as the “PROTECT Act” " (Comment/testimony)
March 23, 2022
Liman Center
"Legislative Regulation of Isolation in Prison: 2018-2021" (Article)
University of Alabama School of Law Legal Studies and Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper Series
August 20, 2021
Judith Resnik, Jenny Carroll, Skylar Albertson, Sarita Benesch, Wynne Muscatine Graham
"Testimony: Pennsylvania Solitary Confinement Legislation" (Comment/testimony)
August 06, 2021
Judith Resnik, Jenny Carroll, Skylar Albertson, Sarita Benesch
"Proposed Changes to Segregation of Individuals in New York State Prisons" (Comment/testimony)
October 25, 2019
Liman Center
Alexandra Harrington, Judith Resnik, Anna VanCleave
"Regulating Restrictive Housing: State and Federal Legislation on Solitary Confinement as of July 1, 2019: A Research Brief " (Brief)
July 18, 2019
Liman Center
Alexandra Harrington, Judith Resnik, Anna VanCleave
"Re: 2016 ACA Restrictive Housing Proposed Revisions" (Comment/testimony)
January 19, 2016
Johanna Kalb, Judith Resnik, Katherine Lawton
"Reactions to Time-In-Cell" (Article)
Yale Law Journal
January 15, 2016
Sarah Baumgartel, Johanna Kalb, and Judith Resnik Reginald Dwayne Betts The Honorable Alex Kozinski Jules Lobel Ashbel T. Wall Marie Gottschal
"Isolation and Reintegration: Punishment Circa 2014" (Colloquium materials)
January 06, 2015
Liman Center
Hope Metcalf, Judith Resnik, Megan Quattlebaum
"Reassessing Solitary Confinement II: The Human Rights, Fiscal, and Public Safety Consequences"
February 25, 2014
Liman Center
Hope Metcalf, Judith Resnik
Women in Prison
"Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars" (Recommendations)
March 22, 2019
Judith Resnik, Anna VanCleave, Alexandra Harrington, Molly Petchenik
"Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars - Statement Submitted Statement (January 25, 2019) Testimony (Video) (February 22, 2019) Recommendations (March 22, 2019)" (Testimony or comment)
January 25, 2019
Judith Resnik, Anna VanCleave, Alexandra Harrington, Molly Petchenik
"Women in Detention: The Need for National Reform " (Testimony/comment)
March 02, 2015
Liman Center
Johanna Kalb, Judith Resnik
"Women in Detention: The Need for National Agenda" (Testimony/comment)
December 09, 2014
Liman Center
Johanna Kalb, Judith Resnik, Megan Quattlebaum with Emma Kaufman, Devon Porter, and Jennifer Jun
"Dislocation and Relocation: Women in the Federal Prison System and Repurposing FCI Danbury for Men" (Report)
September 01, 2014
Liman Center
Anna Arons, Katherine Culver, Emma Kaufman, Jennifer Yun, Hope Metcalf, Megan Quattlebaum, and Judith Resnik
"Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee Bureau of Prisons Oversight on Strategies to Reduce Recidivism" (Testimony/comment)
November 13, 2012
Liman Center
Judith Resnik, Hope Metcalf, Megan Quattlebaum
Prison Visitation
"Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty-State Survey" (Article)
Yale Law & Policy Review
October 01, 2013
Chesa Boudin, Trevor Stutz, and Aaron Littman
"Visiting Room: A Response to Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty-State Survey" (Article)
Yale Law & Policy Review
October 01, 2013
Giovanna Shay
Yale Law & Policy Review
October 01, 2013
Ashbel T. Wall II
"An Endangered Necessity: A Response to Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty-State Survey" (Article)
Yale Law & Policy Review
October 01, 2013
David Fathi
"Taking Stock and Moving Forward to Improve Prison Visitation Practices: A Response to Prison Visitation Policies: A Fifty-State Survey" (Article)
Yale Law & Policy Review
October 01, 2013
Philip M. Gentry
Fines & fees
"Comments on Inmate Financial Responsibility Program: Procedures" (Testimony/ comment)
April 13, 2023
Liman Center
Dennis Curtis, Hannah Duncan, James Foreman Jr., Mirian Gohara, Brian Highsmith, Grace Li, Tracey L. Meares, Hope Metcalf, Judith Resnik, Jennifer Taylor, Michael Wishnie
"Re: Testimony submitted for the Record in Support of H.B. 5390, an Act repealing statutory provision that impose liability on an individual for repayment of the costs incurred when the individual was incarcerated" (Testimony/comment)
March 24, 2021
Liman Center
Mila Reed-Guevara, Ryanne Bamieh, Jenny E. Carroll
"Fees, Fines, and the Funding of Public Services: A Curriculum for Reform" (Report)
August 01, 2020
Liman Center, Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard, Fines and Fees Justice Center, Policy Advocacy Clinic at UC Berkeley School of Law
Editor
Brian Highsmith, Liman Center
Contributors
Mitali Nagrecha, Criminal Justice Policy Program
Anna VanCleave, Liman Center
Stephanie Garlock, Liman Center
Judith Resnik, Liman Center
Lisa Foster, Fines & Fees Justice Center
Jeff Selbin, Policy Advocacy Clinic
"Inability to Pay: Court Debt Circa 2020" (Article)
Yale Law School
January 20, 2020
Judith Resnik and David Marcus
Death Penalty
"Rethinking "Death Row": Variations in the Housing of Individuals Sentenced to Death" (Report)
July 01, 2016
Liman Center
Other
"Re: Testimony in Support of H.B. No. 6578: (Raised) An Act Concerning Participation in the Electoral Process" (Testimony/comment)
March 10, 2021
Liman Center
Katherine Fang, Liam Gennari, Natalie Kirchhoff, Zal K. Shroff
"(Un)Constitutional Punishments: Eighth Amendment Silos, Penological Purposes, and People's “Ruin”" (Article)
Yale Law Journal Forum
January 03, 2020
Judith Resnik
"Oversight of the Bureau of Prisons & Cost-Effective Strategies for Reducing Recidivism " (Testimony/comment)
November 13, 2013
Judith Resnik, Hope Metcalf, Megan Quattlebaum
"Overcriminalization and Excessive Punishment: Uncoupling Pipelines to Prison" (Report)
July 01, 2012
Liman Center, ABA Section of Litigation, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Hope Metcalf, Sia Sanneh
"Why the Local Matters: Federalism, Localism, and Public Interest Advocacy " (Colloquium materials )
September 29, 2009
Liman Center, National State Attorneys General Program at Columbia
Richard Briffault, Kathleen Claussen, Norman Dorsen, Risa Goluboff, Adam Grogg, Susan N. Herman, Robert Hermann, Margaret H. Marshall, Gillian Metzger, Kathleen S. Morris, Ellen Ash Peters, Judith Resnik, Sarah French Russell, Richard C. Schragger, Randall T. Shepard, James E. Tierney