Dec. 20, 2023 – Using ALC Court Watch data, Invisible By Design: Developmental and Cognitive Disabilities in Allegheny County’s Criminal Legal System maps out the intersection points between people with intellectual disabilities and the criminal punishment system in Allegheny County. It finds this system abuses, neglects, and unconstitutionally detains people with disabilities.
Dec. 12, 2023 – Using ALC Court Watch data, “You Send Yourselves to Jail”: Corrective Diversion in the Allegheny County Mental Health Court exposes the inner workings of a diversion court that harms rather than helps community members. The Mental Health Court is a plea-dependent court that subjects people to most traditional carceral processes and leaves them with a permanent record.
Jul. 10, 2023 – Today, community supervision is the primary driver of mass incarceration, both in jails and prisons. ALC Court Watch’s Probation in Allegheny County seeks to shed light on county-specific probation data, probation detainers’ impact on pretrial detention, and the need for greater court transparency to determine the efficacy of probation.
Apr. 17, 2021 – ALC Court Watch’s second docket report is based on the arrest and arraignment data from 5,950 individual docket sheets compiled over the course of 140 days. It examines two key actors in the development and maintenance of racial apartheid in the Pittsburgh region: police and judges.
Dec. 1, 2020 – ALC Court Watch’s first docket report examines municipal court docket information from May 11, 2020 through June 8, 2020. The report analyzes trends in arrests and bail decisions, highlighting the impact of police and judicial discretion. Notably, the vast racial disparities described in the report lay bare an undeniable system of racial apartheid.