Article: REPORT CITES SERIOUS OVERCROWDING IN LOCAL JAILS

Article: OVERCROWDING CITED IN LOCAL JAILS
The Boston Globe;  October 26, 1987 ;     272 words ... ... year-span ending June 30, 1986, the government said yesterday in a report that outlines serious overcrowding in the nation's local jails. Occupancy rate in the nation's large local jail systems last year was running 8 percent ahead ...

Article: From midyear 2005 to midyear 2006 (June 30, 2006), inmates in ...
Corrections Compendium;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... federal prisons, 3.2 percent; and in local Jails, 2,5 percent, as reported in the ... Similarly, the number of adult females in local jails grew at a faster rate than males (4 ... percent). From 2000 to 2006, women in local jails increased 40 percent and men increased ...

Article: The changing role of local jails. (management of ...
Corrections Today;  October 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... by the mid-'80s. The criminal justice systems in local jurisdictions could not continue to do business as usual. While local jails were not the cause of the problem, they served to bring urgent problems into focus. As a result, the focus of improvement ...

Article: An Estimated 426,479 People in the Nation's Local ...
U.S. Newswire;  June 28, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... were an estimated 426,479 men and women in the nation's local jails as of mid-1991, the Bureau of Justice statistics (BJS ... component in the Office of Justice Programs. Nationally, local jails were estimated to be operating at 101 percent of rated capacity ...

Article: California Plans 83,00 Beds Over 10 Years, Greater Role For ...
Corrections Digest;  January 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... state budget to operate adult and juvenile facilities. "Local jails and state prisons are so overcrowded that criminals are being ... of the emphasis will move away from centralized prisons to local jails to increase community participation in the rehabilitation ...

Article: OJP needs comment on local jails pretest
Corrections Digest;  February 2, 2001 ;     301 words ...The Office of Justice Programs wants comment by Feb. 26 on its Survey of Inmates in Local Jails Pretest. The pretest will include an estimated 100 personal interviews with inmates held in jails in preparation for a survey ...

Article: Government plans to tackle serious overcrowding in ...
Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland);  November 17, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Two-year delay on new jail to worsen overcrowding Government plans to tackle serious overcrowding in the State's jails have been hit by a two-year delay to the massive Thornton Hall prison project. The north county Dublin ...