{"id":1999,"date":"2011-05-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/states-lock-up-less-people-but-georgia-increases-pew.html"},"modified":"2011-05-23T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:00:00","slug":"states-lock-up-less-people-but-georgia-increases-pew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/states-lock-up-less-people-but-georgia-increases-pew.html","title":{"rendered":"States lock up less people, but Georgia increases &mdash;Pew"},"content":{"rendered":"A Pew Center on the States report from 1 April 2010,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewcenteronthestates.org\/report_detail.aspx?id=57653\">\nPrison Count 2010: State Population Declines for the First Time in 38 Years<\/a>:\n<blockquote>\nFor the first time in nearly 40 years, the number of state prisoners in\nthe United States has declined, according to &#8220;Prison Count 2010,&#8221; a new\nsurvey by the Pew Center on the States.  As of January 2010, there were\n1,404,053* persons under the jurisdiction of state prison authorities,\n4,777* fewer than on December 31, 2008.\n<p>\nThis marks the first year-to-year drop in the nation&#8217;s state prison\npopulation since 1972.  While the study showed an overall decline, it\nrevealed great variation among jurisdictions.  The prison population\ndeclined in 26* states, while increasing in 24* states and in the\nfederal system.\n<p>\n*Numbers updated as of April 1, 2010. (Report originally released March 17, 2010.)\n<\/blockquote>\nGuess which way Georgia went?\nAs you can see in the map,\nGeorgia increased by 1.6% while Texas,\nalready leading in not wasting tax dollars on new prisons,\ndecreased by 0.7%.\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5745092644\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2180\/5745092644_4d0afd0dbd_z.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nSo the states that are locking up less, what are they doing instead?\n<blockquote>\nIn the past few years, several states have enacted reforms designed\nto get taxpayers a better return on their public safety dollars.\nThese strategies included:\n<ul>\n<li>\nDiverting low-level offenders and probation and parole violators from prison\n<li>\nStrengthening community supervision and re-entry programs\n<li>\nAccelerating the release of low-risk inmates who complete risk reduction programs\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nThe problem is we&#8217;re locking up too many people.\nThat problem won&#8217;t be solved by privatizing prisons.\nPrivate prisons have profit motive to lock up <em>more<\/em> people.\n<p>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison in Lowndes County.\nSpend those tax dollars on education instead.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pew Center on the States report from 1 April 2010, Prison Count 2010: State Population Declines for the First Time in 38 Years: For the first time in nearly 40 years, the number of state prisoners in the United States has declined, according to &#8220;Prison Count 2010,&#8221; a new survey by the Pew Center [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,14,15,2,72,21,178],"tags":[8817,8717,8705,8730,727,4519,2490,75,1297,2489,218,2712,60,8749],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-economy","category-education","category-government","category-incarceration","category-planning","category-vlcia","tag-cca","tag-community","tag-education","tag-incarceration","tag-jail","tag-low-risk-inmates","tag-parole","tag-prison","tag-private-prison","tag-probation","tag-profit","tag-rehabilitation","tag-tax","tag-vlcia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-wf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}