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..., prison crowding, and subversion of reform efforts.11 The purposes of Senate Bill 2 were to manage prison population levels and to standardize and expand community sanctions. Because the bill diverted some thieves to the misdemeanor system, encouraged non-prison sanctions for lower-level felons...

... efforts to ensure the health and safety of prisoners and staff alike. Keeping prison conditions at the forefront of concern remains a challenge, especially given the urgent need to reduce the size of the incarcerated population. © The Ohio State University sentencing prison crowding segregation...

... by advocates of this potential new silver bullet. In fact, the study results suggested the following: The potential for ISPs to reduce prison crowding may be limited by the low number of sites willing to implement true prison diversion programs and by implementation problems in the few that have done so...

.... As incarceration rates grew, a renewed emphasis on parole release (especially of low risk offenders) and a tightening of parole revocation policies have been used in some states to address prison crowding. In states like Texas, for example, the parole release rate has signi cantly grown in recent years...

... capacity, with about 12,500 more inmates than the prisons were built to hold. In 2008, to help address prison crowding and preserve scarce resources, like many of you Ohio joined a group of more than twenty-eight states in the Justice Reinvestment Initiative (JRI). The goal was to develop strategies...

... transmitters, attached to the offender s wrist or ankle, that send out a radio signal to a receiver connected to the offender s home telephone line. When RF monitoring technology was first developed in the United States for widespread use during the early 1980s, the combination of prison crowding, media...

... or ethnic group; and would not substantially exacerbate prison crowding.11 Then, moments after Yates acknowledged the heavy price extracted by mandatory minimums, she indicated that disparities in some sentences merit fresh consideration for modest but new mandatory minimums: Undue leniency has become...

.... As a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) overview of struc- tured sentencing concluded in 1996, Minnesota s success in avoiding prison overcrowding, then, is not linked solely to guidelines. . . . [G]uidelines themselves are not a sufficient condition for controlling prison crowding . . . . Clearly, prison...

..., not adversely impact any racial or ethnic group, and not lead to prison crowding. We hope to work with the Sentencing Commission to evaluate proposed reforms and develop appropriate recommendations to Congress. D. The Department s Internal Charging and Other Sentencing Policies Over the years, the Department...

... of Community Supervision, 103 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1015 (2013). Many thanks to Ashley Rouse for her editorial assistance. 1 See generally David J. Diroll, Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission, Prison Crowding: the Long View, With Suggestions, Monitoring Report (2011) (tracing the growth of Ohio s prison...

... declared that immediate action is necessary to prevent death and harm caused by California s severe prison overcrowding. 16 These risks are not theoretical. In one instance, a dormitory was so crowded that prison staff did not learn about a prisoner s death for hours, much less provide emergency care.17...

... who frankly should not be there, including people who are elderly, sick, have mental or physical disabilities, and who pose no threat of violence to the public, District Attorney Krasner said. Jails and prisons are already dirty, crowded places. The elected and appointed leaders of the Commonwealth...

... and equally strong opposition to sentencing policies that would cause prison crowding. The Commission s policy choices in particular, its decision to approach guideline development as a policy-making process rather than an effort to codify past sentencing practices, and its rejection of real-offense...

... disparate enforcement and charging practices by police and prosecutors. They reduce severity in individual cases and thus prison crowding overall. They also provide meaningful feedback to the Commission in the form of judicial variances so that it can sensibly review and revise the guidelines. For the rst...

...Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections © The Ohio State University Transforming Prisons, Restoring Lives: Final Recommendations of the Charles Colson Task Force on Federal Corrections (excerpted) CHARLES COLSON TASK FORCE ON FEDERAL CORRECTIONS January 2016 Note: The full report...

... rated capacity. This is of special concern at the prisons housing the most serious offenders, with 53 percent crowding at high-security facilities and 49 percent at medium-security facilities. This level of crowding puts correctional officers and inmates alike at greater risk of harm and makes far more...

...David I. Bruck © The Ohio State University Emergency Parole Release for Older Parole-Eligible DOC Inmates Dear Secretary Moran and Chairwoman Bennett, I am writing to urge you to protect elderly Virginia prison inmates from the risk of death from COVID-19 by granting immediate parole release...

... admission assumption increased the 10-year forecast by over 900 prisoners. The level of accuracy raises the issue of under- and overestimates. It is fair to say that correctional officials are more fearful of an underestimate, which may lead to crowding and perhaps a more dangerous prison environment...

... as they exist today. D. Prevent Violence: Recommendations Reduce crowding. States and localities must com- mit to eliminating the crowded conditions that exist in many of the country s prisons and jails and work with corrections administrators to set and meet reasonable limits on the number of prisoners...

... and reduce prison crowding by shortening sentences for less serious and non-dangerous offenders. Mandatory minimum penalty statutes are particularly wasteful and unfair; they sweep too broadly and require excessively long sentences for over ten thousand offenders every year. And they are unnecessary because...