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Philadelphia: Pew report: City prison population can be reduced, safely

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Pew report: City prison population can be reduced, safely By JULIE SHAW Philadelphia Daily New Philadelphia's prison population can be reduced without jeopardizing public safety if policymakers find ways to keep low-level offenders awaiting trial out of jail and continue to streamline the criminal-justice process, a new report by the Pew Charitable Trusts says. In its study, "Philadelphia's Crowded, Costly Jails: The Search for Safe Solutions," released today, Pew's Philadelphia Research Initiative found that the rise in county inmate numbers from 1999 to 2008 was driven largely by the number of inmates awaiting trial - and not by convicted criminals. Without steps to trim the size of the city's jail population, the "gains the city has made in controlling the jail population may be hard to maintain," said Larry Eichel, project director of the Philadelphia Research Initiative, who edited the report...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 19, 2010 (boomark / email).