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.
“I think we've come to a point in our state, and it's been this way for years, where we have to distinguish who we're mad at, and who we're afraid of. Those we're afraid of need to be segregated in a prison and need to serve a sentence. Those we're mad at can be handled safely in the community with much better results.“
News 1 Kentucky
May 19, 2019
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