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Report of the NYS Comm. on Local Government Efficiency & Competitiveness: Regional Jails & Managing Prisoner Populations

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

21st Century Local Government Report of the NYS Commission on Local Government Efficiency and Competitiveness April 2008 EXCERPT Regional Jails and Managing Inmate Populations Oversight of county jails is provided by the State Commission of Correction(SCOC), which has the mission of providing for a safe, stable, and humane correctional system. This oversight, while necessary to ensure proper treatment of prisoners, has led to conflicts with counties. Many counties facing jail projects believe their capacity needs were overestimated by SCOC. Under current leadership, SCOC has made its view clear that allowing counties to transfer inmates for non-emergency purposes over extended periods is not appropriate and would discourage counties from constructing jails that meet long-term correctional needs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).