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.
"Those involved with the judicial system, from probation officers to public defenders, were seeing the same trend: Young men who had never been in trouble before suddenly were appearing in court."
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
June 16, 2018
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