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Briefing Reports

Briefing Report Cover Women in Prison: Seeking Justice Behind Bars

This report examines the state of federal civil rights protections for incarcerated women to explore women’s experiences while incarcerated.
Briefing Report Cover Free to Learn: Speech and Sexual Harassment on Campus

This report addresses the potential tension between free speech and impermissible sexual harassment in higher education.
Report Cover for Statutory Enforcement 2019 Are Rights a Reality? Evaluating Federal Civil Rights Enforcement

For this report, the Commission examines thirteen different federal agencies, seeking to evaluate each on the efficacy of the agency’s external federal civil rights enforcement efforts from Fiscal Year 2016 to Fiscal Year 2018. 
Briefing Report Cover ​​​​​​​In the Name of Hate: Examining the Federal Government’s Role in Responding to Hate Crimes

This report examines federal law enforcement’s hate crimes reporting practices and local policies, federal prosecution and enforcement of laws regarding hate crimes and bias-motivated incidents, and prevention of these crimes.
Briefing Report Cover Trauma at the Border: The Human Cost of Inhumane Immigration Policies

This report details how the current Administration’s changes to asylum, the detention of children, and certain other immigration policies, practices, and procedures have created an unnecessary human and civil rights crisis at the southern border.