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New Dallas crimjust advisory board: Send fewer people from city to county jail

Dallas County Commissioners are looking for advice from a new Criminal Justice Advisory Board to improve "efficiency" and combat rising local criminal-justice related costs, reports Kevin Krause at the Dallas News' Crime Blog, and they've already identified ways to reduce costs by reducing unnecessary pretrial detention for low-level offenders:Dallas County's biggest expense is administering the local criminal justice system. But with cooperation, there are innovative ways to reduce those costs and run the system smoothly and efficiently." That is the mission of the new Dallas County Criminal Justice Advisory Board, which met [yesterday] in the Old Red Courthouse downtown. The advisory board seeks to involve every part of the local criminal justice system: the police departments, sheriff, judges, probation, prosecutors, etc...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 07, 2008 (boomark / email).