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Jail Reform Case Study

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I. There are significant needs for instituting a comprehensive program of jail reform.
A. There will be a decrease of jail reform in Los angeles county.
1. “At the end of October 2014, the total jail population was 18,668 and 2,500 of those inmates have felonies of petty crimes.” Public Safety Realignment
2. “Jerry Brown planned a 1.2 billion dollars over 3 years to rent beds in private prison, reopen detension facilities in alifornia, to put more prisoners in county jails.”Dick and Sharon on LAprogressive.com”
3. Instead of using tax dollars to imprison more people that money should go to reducing jail size, and give prisoners a change tohave a lighter sentences.
B. Implimenting Jail reforms, will give more money to other programs that rely …show more content…

Instead of putting people with mental illness in jail they should be sent to a mental institution for help sine “ There is inadequate mental health care to prevent prisoners from becoming suicidal, to identify suicidal prisoner, or to prevent prisoners from going into a crisses” theDEpartment of justis said.
2. UCLA Drug Abuse Researcher M. Douglas Anglin said drug offender sent from correctional system into treatment saves a little more than 2,300 dollars per offender.
C. Jail reform will benefit the people of Los Angeles.
1. “Imprisonment disrupts relationships and weakness social cohesion. When a member of a family is imprisoned the disruption of family structure affects relationship between spouses, parents and children. “United Nation Office On Drugs and Crimes.
2. The minority population in Los Angeles is “68.2%”(Stephanie and Doris) and “38% are Latino, 29% are African American and 6% of other ethnicities, and 27% are white.”(Hans P. Johnson)
II. Propose the following plan to lessen the problem
A. Plank I: As of January 1, 2016 Los Angeles county will implement a comprehensive program of Jail reform.
B. Plank II: A 1o member board consisting of the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) will defend individual rights of the prisoner in Los Angeles county

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