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Want to Fight Mass Incarceration? Start With Your Local Jail

A new collection of essays from academics and activists devoted to prison abolition focuses on the quiet but rapid expansion of the carceral system in small towns and municipalities. ....

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Cash bail is big business in Chatham County, so is cost to taxpayers

A report released by Deep Center in partnership with the Vera Institute for Justice and the Southern Center for Human Rights attempts to answer this question. ....

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Indiana Republican senators unveil package of bills aimed at crime reduction

A group of Republican senators from Marion County unveiled a package of bills Thursday that seeks to address what they view as a worrying trend of. ....

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Indiana makes it hard for the public to know how much its local jails cost, new study says

Indiana makes it hard for the public to know how much its local jails cost, new study says
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Indiana makes it hard for the public to know how much its local jails cost, new study says

A new study from the nonprofit Vera Institute of Justice says that it costs at least $240 million a year to keep people locked up in local jails in Indiana. And that number is likely much, much larger. ....

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