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Article: Report Blames Undue Pressure From State Commission Of Corrections Dramatic Jail Expansion Comes At A Time When Prison Population Is Decreasing
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- The Culvert Chronicles
- Article date:
- May 10, 2007
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A report released y by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on the expansion of jails in upstate and suburban New York finds that the recent increase in jail expansion is most often driven by the wishes of a little-known state agency - the State Commission of Corrections (SCOC) - rather than the needs and wishes of local municipalities. The jail expansion also comes at a time when the overall need for correctional space in New York State is decreasing, which raises questions about the motivation behind building new jails or expanding existing ones. Authored by Dana Kaplan, an Open Society Institute Soros Justice Fellow at the Center for Constitutional Rights, the report "Impacts of ...
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