Big Growth in Small Jails
April 6, 2016
4/2/26 – As part of a series of articles in Issues on incarceration in the United States, two experts in criminology described evidence-based lessons that may help federal and state policymakers and other stakeholders reduce the number of people locked up. Now in an emerging concern, a recent report and additional analysis described in The Atlantic spotlight the unprecedented growth in the number of prisoners held in jails in thousands of the nation’s smallest counties.