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.
“Figuring out what to do with shuttered correctional facilities is kind of new territory, said Nicole Porter, the director of advocacy at The Sentencing Project, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices; and advocates for alternatives to incarceration. Porter has tracked what communities nationwide are doing with closed-down prisons. “
Saporta Report
June 3, 2019
Read More“She said with Fulton and DeKalb County jails, there was never a need for this one to be built and hold people who only violated city ordinances. Bottoms said she hopes to start transforming the space before her current term ends in 2021. She said the city has already started to assign jail staffers to other departments and some have even opted to retire.“
Georgia Public Broadcasting
May 28, 2019
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