Over the past several years, the jail's inmate population has been significantly reduced to approximately 1,200 inmates by the county's efforts to find safe and cost -
effective alternatives to incarceration, such as supervised pre-trial release, credit card bail and other means of supervision.
Other interventions, such as in - home visitation by nurses and therapeutic foster care as an
alternative to juvenile
incarceration, and universal school - based violence prevention programs have proven
effective, and expanding these programs could reduce the numbers of injuries even further.»