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JPI: New report: Jail populations exploding; massive growth devastating local communities

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Justice Policy Institute: New report: Jail populations exploding; massive growth devastating local communities http://www.justicepolicy.org/content.php?hmID=1811&smID=1581&ssmID=73 Jails bulging with people with mental illnesses, the homeless and people detained for immigration offenses; costing counties billions Washington, D.C.?Communities are bearing the cost of a massive explosion in the jail population which has nearly doubled in less than two decades, according to a new report released today by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI). The research found that jails are now warehousing more people--who have not been found guilty of any crime--for longer periods of time than ever before. The research shows that in part due to the rising costs of bail, people arrested today are much more likely to serve jail time before trial than they would have been twenty years ago, even though crime rates are nearly at the lowest levels in thirty years...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 01, 2008 (boomark / email).