“It’s a riddle at the heart of Michigan’s efforts to reform its criminal justice system: How can it be that the state’s county jail population has tripled over the past 50 years even as crime rates have plunged to levels not seen in generations?  Nobody seems to know.  One major reason is nobody at the state level knows much about the inmates being housed in county jails, or why they are there.“

Bridges Magazine

July 24, 2019