- Prison Reform🔍
- A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Incarceration🔍
- Reducing Jail Use🔍
- County Guide for Reducing Jail Populations and Costs🔍
- Cutting Jail & Prison Populations🔍
- We Can Reduce Jail Populations and Keep Communities Safe🔍
- A better path forward for criminal justice🔍
- Reducing Reliance on Local Jails🔍
Reducing Jail Use
Prison Reform: Reducing Recidivism by Strengthening the Federal ...
The Federal Bureau of Prisons is undertaking sweeping reforms designed to reduce recidivism and strengthen public safety.
A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Incarceration
According to a 2016 Brennan Center for Justice report, nearly 40 percent of the U.S. prison population is incarcerated without any compelling ...
Reducing Jail Use: What's Working | Vera Institute
The investments detailed in this section can help jurisdictions reduce the use of jail incarceration by meeting people's prevention and treatment needs.
County Guide for Reducing Jail Populations and Costs
Pretrial Length of Stay ... Reducing length of stay during the pretrial period will decrease jail populations and allow people to return to the community more ...
Cutting Jail & Prison Populations | Brennan Center for Justice
These steps would reduce our prison population by more than 500,000 people. But almost half a million people are in city or county jails without having been ...
We Can Reduce Jail Populations and Keep Communities Safe
The decreased use of jails has no impact on crime, particularly violent crime, and communities should look beyond incarceration to address ...
A better path forward for criminal justice: Changing prisons to help ...
With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, criminal justice reformers have urged a continued focus on reducing prison populations and many states are permitting early ...
Reducing Reliance on Local Jails - NCSC
The causes of jail population increases and crowding are numerous, but most experts cite a rising number of pretrial detainees, the increased use of jails for ...
Reducing Incarceration - Vera Institute
Vera works to end money bail; support prosecutors working to eliminate racial disparities in charging and sentencing; stop the unnecessary use of jails.
How can “peer support” apply in jail reduction efforts? Common use of the term “peers” in the context of the justice system refers to individuals with relevant ...
Tools for fighting jail expansion | Prison Policy Initiative
Pretrial detention drives jail population growth. Counties can reduce overcrowding by reforming money bail. On a structural level, money bail contributes to ...
Reducing Admissions to Jail and Prisons
There are several policy options states can consider to reduce the use of prisons and jails while still holding people accountable and promoting public ...
Using Jail Data to Improve Public Safety and Reduce Incarceration
Using Jail Data to Improve Public Safety and Reduce Incarceration. NYU's Anna Harvey sits down to talk with Arnold Ventures about the Public ...
How Can Localities Reduce Their Overreliance on Jails?
The Urban Institute is documenting the strategies sites are using to reduce their jail populations, with the goal of sharing lessons learned, challenges, and ...
Too many criminal justice systems, whether non- custodial responses exist in law or not, still use imprisonment as their default sanction. This can be because ...
Reducing Prison Crowding - An Overview of Options
The mechanisms for reducing prison overcrowding are listed under three broad options: (1) reducing the number of offenders admitted to prisons, ...
Prison and penal reform: the need for change
... use of ICTs for criminal purposes · IEG on Cybercrime · Bureau and extended Bureau ... Reducing poverty and inequality. Imprisonment can cause long-lasting ...
Funding Housing Solutions to Reduce Jail Incarceration
Deflection from the criminal justice system should be the guiding principle for local policymakers, however, no community has eliminated the use ...
As the nation grapples with mass incarceration, mayors and other city leaders have multiple opportunities to reduce the flow of residents into local jails.
Criminal Justice Budgeting: Reducing Admissions to Jail and Prisons
There are several policy options states can consider to reduce the use of prisons and jails while still holding people accountable and ...