Since the United States' high-water mark of incarceration in 2008, there has been a modest decrease in the use of incarceration nationally, with some cities and counties seeing much steeper declines. To drive these reductions, communities have invested in reforms such as alternatives to...
The pretrial population of defendants has significantly increased in the U.S., namely in rural areas. Jails in smaller jurisdictions account for an unusually large contribution to jail population growth. This paper examines possible explanations for this growth and recommends ways to reduce...
2018-04-RR-Rural Pretrial Incarceration-CEJ-Levin Haugen.pdf
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