While the United States has only 5 percent of the world's population, it has ...  Mental illness among today's inmates is also pervasive, with 64 percent of ...  show U.S. crime dropped as incarceration rates went up, the report found no ...  The Smarter Sentencing Act, for one, would cut some mandatory sentences for  nonviolent ...
The conditions of confinement in today's prisons and jails have many of the ... In  addition, the entire state prison mental health system is being monitored by ....  The population of prisoners under jail supervision who are confined in ...  Nationwide, nonviolent offenders account for 72 percent of all new state prison  admissions.
During that time, Pew reported, 88 percent of new corrections dollars were  allocated to prisons and ... Non-prison sanctions for probation and parole  violations can ... Electronic monitoring has been found to be a ... programs  available in their states; mental health and ...
Feb 18, 2016 ... Although youth have committed violent and nonviolent crimes at a lower rate ...  During the 1990s, most states saw a reduction in the availability of public mental  health .... of up to 50 percent have been demonstrated in research studies [55]. ...  The program aims to restructure juvenile offenders' thinking and ...
May 5, 2015 ... Mothers tell me about sons who are put in jail for minor non-violent offenses ...  One-third of the inmates have a serious mental illness. ... efforts have saved $10  million per year and reduced jail overcrowding. ... 8/28/2018 2:05:50 AM ... He  had been saying for months, they try to put him in jail. he said people ...
Says that under a new program jail "time for non-violent, mentally ill offenders has been reduced by 50 percent."