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Workforce Issues in Corrections

Journal
Corrections Today
Date Published
December 2019
Agencies
NIJ
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance), Issue Overview

State Responses to Mass Incarceration

June 2011

Researchers have devoted considerable attention to mass incarceration, specifically its magnitude, costs, and collateral consequences. In the face of economic constraints, strategies to reduce correctional populations while maintaining public safety are becoming a fiscal necessity. This panel will present strategies that states have undertaken to reduce incarceration rates while balancing taxpayer costs with ensuring public safety.