Cattaraugus County - Cattaraugus County’s jail population in December 2020 How bail reform changed the jail population

In February 2020, the month after bail reform went into effect, the average daily jail population in Cattaraugus County Cattaraugus County was 116—a 19 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 the In Cattaraugus County, 1.5 percent of county residents 43 counties outside of New York City sampled by the are Black, but in contrast, on any given day in March Vera Institute, the number of people entering jail who 2019, before bail reform, 20 percent of people held in were charged with a violation or misdemeanor fell al- jail in Cattaraugus County were Black. [...] In 2020, the month after bail reform went into effect, 27 Cattaraugus County, the number of people entering jail for percent of people in jail were Black, and by June 2020, a violation or misdemeanor fell from 32 in March 2019 to after COVID-19 policies and practices had been in 18 in February 2020, a 44 percent drop. [...] Quick facts about Cattaraugus County Length of stay County population In March 2019, the median length of stay in jail in 76,117 Cattaraugus County was 74 days.