Posts tagged Utah
Jason M. Groth: The solution to criminal justice flaws is in the data

“This blind spot is due to our lack of specific data about these intermediate steps of the criminal justice system. For example, we have no information about the racial make-up of who gets a plea deal and the types of plea deals offered. Collecting and sharing this type of information is crucial to addressing the still serious problems of mass incarceration, racial disparities, and recidivism in Utah.“

Salt Lake Tribune

August 17, 2019

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UT Reforms Successfully Reduced Prison Population, Data Shows

"Pew's analysis found Utah's prison population dropped 9 percent from 2015 to 2017. But just a few years earlier, the state's prison population had been increasing at a rate five times the national average.  Adam Gelb, director of Pew’s Public Safety Performance Project, says it's clear the state's criminal justice reform law, passed in 2015, was successful at reversing the trend."

Utah Public News Service

June 4, 2018

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