How bad are California’s jails? Some inmates beg to go to prison instead.
in the first place, and to help those who are incarcerated make a successful return to their communities.
Overall, the consequences for county jails aren’t easy to measure. No state agency collects data that could answer important questions, like what percentage of a county’s inmates are there because of the new measures and whether some jails hold an outsized number of inmates with long sentences.2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision
The county has about 1.5 million residents and has received about 8,000 long-term inmates since 2011, according to the Marshall Project’s analysis. The data do not show how many of those people are still in the county’s jails, which generally house 3,500 to 4,000 people. The number of Sacramento inmates with psychological problems has soared. Last year, its jails reported about 8,800 new mental-health cases, up from around 4,100 in 2010 before the prison reform efforts took hold.
On the positive side, he said, the county has used state funding to increase the programs it offers inmates to help them prepare to return to their communities.
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