Topic: Jail Populations

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Interagency Collaboration Jail Populations Policing May 14, 2015

The Potential of Community Corrections to Improve Safety and Reduce Incarceration

The Vera Institute of Justice

As the size and cost of jails and prisons have grown, so too has the awareness that public investment in incarceration has not yielded the expected return in public safety. This creates an opportunity to reexamine the wisdom of our reliance on institutional corrections—incarceration in prisons or jails—and to reconsider the role of community-based corrections, which encompasses probation, parole, and pretrial supervision. This report provides an overview of the state of community corrections, the transformational practices emerging in the field and recommendations to policymakers on realizing the full value of community supervision to taxpayers and communities.

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Data Analysis Jail Populations Pretrial and Bail May 4, 2015

Rational and Transparent Bail Decisionmaking

Pretrial Justice Institute

Money-based bail systems do not do the job they’re supposed to do—protecting the safety of the community while the defendant’s case is pending, and assuring the appearance of the defendant in court. Instead, the practice of using money to decide pretrial release has wasted taxpayer dollars and played a significant role in contributing to the mass incarceration. This white paper outlines the problems surrounding the current cash-based bail bond process and documents current successful models for moving toward a risk-based bail process.

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