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Some Georgia lawmakers want to lower the jail population especially in Fulton and Muscogee counties due to safety concerns and staffing shortages

Justice-reform groups in Missouri are watching the progress of the Public Safety and Prison Reduction Act. Proposed by the Brennan Center for Justice, it's a $1 billion proposal to Congress to pay states to rethink and shrink their prison populations.

Justice-reform groups in Missouri are watching the progress of a $1 billion proposal to Congress to pay states to rethink and shrink their prison populations.

For the second time in as many months, another convicted resident who was being held in community corrections escaped a felony charge for not returning to authorities when required. Citing a precedent set in a Mesa County case last month, a three-judge panel of the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that District Judge Richard Gurley was correct when he dismissed a charge of felony escape for Austin Urquhart, referring the matter to county court on a lesser misdemeanor count of unauthorized absence. Gurley did that because of a new law approved by the Colorado Legislature earlier this year desig...