In February 2020, the month after bail reform went into effect, the average daily jail population Niagara County in Niagara County was 309—a 5 percent decrease from 2020 jail incarceration rate March 2019, compared to a 31 percent drop statewide. [...] The month after bail reform went into effect, 38.0 percent of Changes in the charges driving people in jail were Black, and by June 2020, after coun- jail incarceration ties had changed policies and practices in response to COVID-19, the percent of people in jails who were Black In the past, New York filled its jails with people charged had grown to 41.5 percent. [...] In In Niagara County, 7.3 percent of county residents are Black, the 43 counties outside of New York City sampled by but in contrast, on any given day in March 2019, before the Vera Institute, the number of people entering jail bail reform, 41 percent of people held in jail in Niagara who were charged with a violation or misdemeanor fell County were Black. [...] In bail reform went into effect, 44 percent of people in jail Niagara County, the number of people entering jail for a were Black, and by June 2020, after COVID-19 policies and violation or misdemeanor fell from 192 in March 2019 to practices had been in effect for several months, 47 percent 99 in February 2020, a 48 percent drop. [...] County population Length of stay 209,281 In March 2019, the median length of stay in jail in Niagara Racial demographics County was 81 days.
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