the average daily jail population in Otsego County had changed to 35, a 6 percent increase from June and a 17 How bail reform changed the jail population percent increase from its pre-pandemic population in February. [...] In February 2020, the month after bail reform went Fast facts about jail in into effect, the average daily jail population in Otsego Otsego County County was 30—a 42 percent decrease from March 2019, compared to a 31 percent drop statewide. [...] The Changes in the charges driving jail month after bail reform went into effect, 38.0 percent of incarceration people in jail were Black, and by June 2020, after coun- ties had changed policies and practices in response to In the past, New York filled its jails with people charged COVID-19, the percent of people in jails who were Black with low-level offenses. [...] the 43 counties outside of New York City sampled by In Otsego County, 2.4 percent of county residents are the Vera Institute, the number of people entering jail Black, but in contrast, on any given day in March 2019, who were charged with a violation or misdemeanor fell before bail reform, 19 percent of people held in jail in almost 60 percent from March 2019 to February 2020. [...] However, in February 2020, Otsego County, the number of people entering jail for a the month after bail reform went into effect, 11 per- violation or misdemeanor fell from 12 in March 2019 to 3 cent of people in jail were Black, but by June 2020, after in February 2020, a 75 percent drop.
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