DECARCERATION STRATEGIES - How 5 States Achieved Substantial Prison Population Reductions

The state set releases whenever capacity was reached.4 A ballot the time-served requirement before eligibility for parole proposal to increase taxes for prison construction failed consideration to 100% of the minimum sentence (instead in 1980.5 After prison riots in 1981 and a release under of 85%) and applied it to all sentences (instead of just the Emergency Powers Act led to a parolee committin. [...] Property crime sanctions were reduced in and local collaboration – from the time of their entry to 2001 by adjusting the dollar amounts that determined prison through their transition, reintegration, and aftercare seriousness, and most of the mandatory minimum drug in the community.” Planning for the MPRI was grounded laws were repealed in 2002 in favor of drug sentences in a combination of reentr. [...] Fewer New Prison Commitments Supervision In 1990, the Michigan Community Corrections Act was Many of the features of the MPRI model designed to enacted to improve the use of jails and reduce prison increase the feasibility of parole were also designed to admissions through state and local planning and ensure successful community reintegration upon partnerships. [...] Evaluation of the military-style boot camp was to date were not the direct result of comprehensive negative, so the Department transformed it from a boot bipartisan legislative packages of reforms.27 Instead, camp into an Intensive Reentry/In-Reach program in the effort was led by the Governor in a broad-based 2008 that adhered to the evidence-based practices of approach to state leadership and co. [...] The Expanded court outreach and SAI recruitment efforts primary drivers of justice reform were the fiscal nearly doubled the average annual number of intensive environment and the contribution of the ever-expanding reentry program graduates, and the 3-year success rate prison system to the state’s budget challenges.