The Public Safety Performance Project works with states to advance data-driven, fiscally sound policies and practices in the criminal and juvenile justice systems.
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Pew and Casey Applaud Georgia Leaders for Comprehensive Juvenile Justice Reform
Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed into law today comprehensive legislation that will improve the state’s juvenile justice system by reducing youth recidivism rates and cutting costs to taxpayers. more
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U.S. Prison Count Continues to Drop
After nearly four decades of explosive growth, the U.S. prison population declined for two years in a row, according to the Justice Department. Inmate counts fell in about half the states in each year from 2009-10 and 2010-11.
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December 4, 2012
State Legislators on Sentencing and Corrections Reforms
Six state legislative leaders reflect on how they successfully enacted comprehensive sentencing and corrections reforms using a bipartisan, interbranch working group and focusing on data and research to craft policies that met their unique challenges. more
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California Voters Pass Proposition 36 to Reform “Three Strikes” Law
Adam Gelb of The Pew Center on the States released the following statement today after Proposition 36 passed with a large majority of the vote in California. The referendum will modify elements of California's "Three Strikes" Law, which was first approved by the state's voters in 1994. more
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Pew Praises State Leaders for Justice Reinvestment Bill
The Pew Center on the States released the following statement today regarding Governor Tom Corbett’s signing of House Bill 135. The bill is the second half of the Justice Reinvestment reform package that was enacted through Senate Bill 100 in June (now “Act 122”) to protect public safety, hold offenders accountable and control corrections costs in Pennsylvania.
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Positive Results Coming From HB463
The Times Tribune: Changes in the way some criminal offenders are sentenced, incarcerated and paroled have already saved the state money and most of the people affected—prosecutors, defense attorneys, county governments—say the new law is working well.
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Editorial: Florida Must Get Smart with Prisons
Florida has taken "lock 'em up and throw away the key" to an unaffordable extreme, wasting money without providing more security. The state has been on a prison building binge in recent years while cutting state support to higher education.
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Gov. Deal to Reform Commission: Look at All Aspects of Juvenile Justice
Gov. Nathan Deal urged the judges, prosecutors, sheriffs and legislators serving on a criminal-justice reform commission Monday to consider every part of the juvenile justice system for possible overhaul. I want to charge you to look at that from the inception, and you will have the assistance of state officials," he said.
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Rising Cost of Incarceration Alarms South Dakota Officials
A South Dakota committee will examine rising prison costs and the state’s exceptionally high lockup rate in an effort to reform the criminal justice system and save money.
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Gov. Deal Wants Review of Juvenile Justice System
Gov. Nathan Deal urged judges, prosecutors, sheriffs and legislators serving on a criminal-justice reform commission Monday to consider every part of the juvenile justice system for overhaul.
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