Due South: Looking to the South for Criminal Justice Innovations
Publication year:
2011
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 27, 2011
ANNOTATION: This report describes strategies for reducing correctional costs while improving public safety. Other jurisdictions can adapt these practices to increase system efficiencies and cut operational costs. Sections following a summary are: interacting with people with mental illness in Memphis (TN); expanding pretrial release in Broward County (FL); reforming arrest and pretrial practices in New Orleans (LA); reducing incarceration for nonviolent offenders in Arkansas; rolling back “Truth in Sentencing” laws in Mississippi; Missouri—collaboration in reform; supervised reentry services in Alabama; data-driven reforms to parole supervision practices in Georgia; overhauling Kentucky’s criminal justice system; justice reinvestment in Texas; justice system overhaul in South Carolina; and recommendations.
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