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EIGHTY-EIGHT PERCENT

By JAABLOG

The jail population today was at its lowest point in as long as anyone can remember.  Sources peg it at eighty-eight percent of capacity, with an average in the low nineties for the month of January.Arrests were trending lower toward the end of December, but this is not the only reason for the improvement.  The consistent approach of a full time First Appearances judge, the rejection of "zero tolerance" by the Department of Corrections on probation violations, and the nearly six hundred additional clients on Pretrial Release compared to last year at this time, have all combined to reduce the all important average length of stay behind bars.  Additionally, if the rotating weekend First Appearances judges can somehow be trained to apply a consistent approach, the Monday morning population spike can hopefully be eliminated...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).