Sentences with phrase «jail population»

The alternatives are familiar enough when we view the prison and jail population from another angle.

During one recent five - year period the prison and jail population jumped by 200,000 inmates.

In light of recent demographic trends predicting declining jail population, we are concerned that the proposed design is too large.

The government has been forced to introduce emergency measures to tackle a bursting jail population, which includes using police cells from today.

In addition, he talked about several other challenges facing the county and his plan to address them, including a growing jail population improving both tourism and business development.

Even with the planned closure of the George Motchan Detention Center, which currently houses about 600 men awaiting trial, Page expressed concern that the overarching time frame may diminish the spotlight on reducing jail populations — even as the city experienced an annual 5.4 percent drop in serious crime in 2017.

«This historic announcement of this massive jail population reduction is a milestone in our path to closing Rikers Island,» the council speaker said in an emailed statement.

New York City's monthly average jail population is on track to drop below 9,000 for the first time in 35 years, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday.

The plan, which the mayor largely supports, calls for cutting the current daily jail population of 10,000 in half and moving the remaining inmates to new jails across the city.

However, plaintiffs» attorneys said that 5 - 4 decision dealt with a person who was placed in the general jail population after arraignment.

However, Lord Ramsbottom, a former chief inspector of prisons, warned the prison and probation services were already struggling with the current jail population - and said a new round of initiatives to lock up more people would not help.

Last month, de Blasio announced plans to close the notorious prison complex in a decade and reduce the city's jail population by about half — down to 5,000 — to make it happen.

The city will spend $ 30 million in the next three years on programs focused on reducing the overall jail population, including increased access to jail diversion programs for those charged with low - level crimes, and directing inmates with mental health issues to treatment facilities instead.

The government must «think long and hard» about alternatives to prison for some offenders if Britain's bulging jail population is to be managed, MPs have warned.

From other reports it appears that Rockland has the lowest crime rate and lowest jail population per resident compared to all other Counties in the Lower Hudson Valley.

The result was overflowing court dockets and exploding jail populations.

Mayor Bill de Blasio touted the numbers as evidence that large cities can reduce jail population and be safe at the same time.

(1/6/2012) Houston Chronicle Jail Population decrease eases overcrowding: Earl Musick, president of Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association, cheered the drop in jail population, but said his group remains concerned at the number of inmates who are awaiting trial, unable to make bail.

They want to cut the daily jail population in half — from 9,000 to fewer than 5,000 — by using diversion programs for low - level criminal offenses, drastically reducing pre-trial detention by expanding a city - supervised release program, funding alternative - to - incarceration programs, and streamlining sentencing guidelines and case processing.

Barrett S. Litt, attorney for the plaintiffs, noted that detainees are booked on a floor separate from the general jail population.

Clarke has been almost entirely silent on the matter until recently, when he said the jail populations are «filled with sick people who have made a lot of bad decisions that have compromised their health.»

White people make up 64 % of the US population but 39 % of the prison and jail populations, while African - Americans make up 13 % of the US population and 40 % of those behind bars, according to 2010 census data.

So too are they represented disproportionately in the prison and jail populations.

As a beginning point in the search for answers to these questions, a profile of the prison and jail population is instructive.

Their failure lies in the inability of reformers to extend these practices to the poor and minorities who make up the bulk of the prison and jail population.

Now you lose 68 % of the jail population, but only 1 % of the worlds scientists.

However, you'd only lose 2 % of the jail population.

Prison and jail populations would decrease radically — a massive savings of tax dollars.

Diaz remarked that criminal justice reform is the «defining issue of our time» and said he welcomed efforts to reduce the jail population.

In recent months, the city has introduced several programs to reduce the jail population, including replacing jail sentences for minor, low - level offenses with services to prevent recidivism.

The de Blasio administration, which called December's jail population a «major milestone,» attributed the drop to several initiatives — a decrease in low - level crime arrests, the citywide supervised release program and expanded diversion programs among them.

In order for Rikers to fully close, the city needs to reduce its jail population to 5,000, according to the mayor's office.

The plan the mayor outlined aims to reduce the jail population to 5,000 after a decade, which he said would allow the city to relocate all inmates from its famous — and infamous — incarceration island.

De Blasio touted the numbers as evidence that large cities can reduce jail population and be safe at the same time.

«We've been carrying out a multi-pronged effort over the course of my first term to shrink our jail population, and today we see the results: a jail population lower than it's been in 35 years.»

These inmates now make up nearly 40 percent of the jail population, but have long been overlooked, Mr. de Blasio said.

Rikers Island's jail population average for December is on track to hit below 9,000, a number not seen since 1982, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017.

Prior to that meeting, he expects the Legislature to consider appropriating funds for the jail population and architectural studies.

«This is a very disappointing development,» said Mareane, «particularly in light of the extraordinary work that is done in this County to utilize any number of current and emerging alternatives to incarceration to keep our jail population low.»

Bellone said he hadn't read Croci's bill, but was concerned about «unintended consequences» of increasing the jail population, which could trigger a state mandate to build a $ 300 million jail.

Rather than focusing on new facilities to replace Rikers, de Blasio's lengthy report discusses ways to reduce the jail population to 5,000 inmates.

The future of social care remains a ticking time - bomb, and just last month the chief inspector of prisons told MPs that older prisoners are the fastest growing part of the jail population and the service is struggling to meet their needs.

His new policies, he said, will reduce immigration, housing, employment and other repercussions; allow his office to concentrate its resources on probing more serious crimes such as domestic violence, drunk driving, stalking and assault cases; reduce the backlog of cases in Manhattan Criminal Court; strengthen law enforcement - community relations; and minimize the jail population on Rikers Island.

Over the next five years, the city hopes to reduce the jail population to 7,000 — but ultimately they'll need fewer than 5,000 people in custody to begin a plan to close Rikers for good.

Elizabeth Glazer, director of the mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, testified that the task force is trying to «implement strategies to reduce the size of the jail population safely.»