1A — State and Local Issues — Galsworthy Criminal Justice Reform Program

State and Local Issues

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.

1A Across America: Mass Incarceration in the Deep South

“Alabama's prison system is the deadliest in the nation. Fifteen inmates died by suicide there in 15 months — from December 2017 to this March. The homicide rate inside that system is six times the national average. The Justice Department has condemned these conditions. This April, the DOJ released a report on the men's section of the prisons that detailed widespread violence, sexual assault, overcrowding and understaffing. How did things get so bad? And what can be done about it?“

NPR

November 14, 2019

Overcriminalization, Mass IncarcerationPhillip ReevesNovember 14, 2019NPR, Alabama, 1AComment

State and Local Issues

Galsworthy CJR Program

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