Quotes: The National Decline in Local Jail Populations

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“County governments are looking at how they want to spend their resources and are deciding that maybe jail isn’t the best place.”

— NANCY LA VIGNE, director of the Justice Policy Center at The Urban Institute, explaining the decline in the U.S. local jail populations for the first time since the Bureau of Justice Statistics began keeping figures in 1982. (via AP)