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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.

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

State ReformsAnthony BradleyJuly 31, 2018Utah Public News Service, Utah

State and Local Issues

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