Because 90% of all prisoners in the United States are in state facilities, the work that states are doing to reduce their prison populations is crucial. Attempting to end mass incarceration necessitates realizing this is a situation requiring not one national solution, but fifty state solutions. Below are current state solutions that could be effectively modeled by other states for meaningful reform.
"llinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) blocked legislation on Friday that would have required corrections officials throughout the state to help people detained in jails and prisons understand whether they can vote. "
Huffington Post
August 20, 2018
Read More"So why these new phones? The sheriff says idle inmates can mean trouble. 'This allows them to do something individually instead of in a group inside the facility,' Sheriff Taylor said. 'If inmates start giving up problems then this is the item that we take away from them and this is a very important item'."
WSPA Spartanburg
July 25, 2018
Read More"P.A.C.T., opened in February, was born out of a collaboration between Middlesex County and the Vera Institute of Justice, a non-profit research group based in New York City. The premise of the unit is to reflect life on the outside. Inmates there have more freedom."
WGBH Boston
April 4, 2018
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