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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.

Michigan jails fill as crime sinks and nobody seems to know why

“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

Mass IncarcerationPhillip ReevesJuly 24, 2019Bridges Magazine, MichiganComment

State and Local Issues

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