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  • 22 - Reducing Admissions and Shortening Stays

  • from Part IV - The Road to Recovery
  • Jeffrey Bellin
  • Book:
    Mass Incarceration Nation
    Published online:
    03 November 2022
    Print publication:
    17 November 2022, pp 184-193

  • Summary

    In 1970, there were approximately 200,000 people in state and federal prisons and an incarceration rate of about 96 persons per 100,000 population.1 A variety of steps will be required to get back to these numbers. The previous chapters discuss ways to shrink the pool of people caught up in the criminal justice system by reducing the scope of American criminal law and decreasing offending. This chapter discusses ways to limit the number of people incarcerated from the remaining pool of law breakers. The two basic steps are (1) decreasing the number of admissions to prison/jail and (2) reducing the time served for those who are incarcerated.