Implementation Guide
Data Analysis Interagency Collaboration Jail Costs May 6, 2019
Does our county really need a bigger jail?
As jail populations have skyrocketed over the past three decades, jails around the country have become dangerously overcrowded. The reflexive response is often to start the long, expensive process of building a larger jail. However, this report provides a roadmap to easier, quicker, cheaper, and more just solutions to jail overcrowding. It is organized around a series of questions that local decisionmakers should be asking advocates of jail expansion, and then lays out a detailed briefing on best practices for reducing jail overcrowding.
