Sentence examples for jail populations from inspiring English sources

Bratton pointed to big falls in crime and jail populations in New York, where prisons have since been closed.

Judges are getting angry, and even county sheriffs are threatening legal action if their jail populations are not reduced.

Advocates of prisoners' rights and other rights said efforts should be made to reduce jail populations, not to increase capacity.

With jail populations included, the incarceration rate decreased even more — 9percentt decrease from 2009 through 2013.

The agreement was reached as police chiefs, corrections officials, judges and prosecutors joined calls for substantial reductions in prison and jail populations, to match reductions in crime rates.

Prison and jail populations have grown historically large, correctional budgets have skyrocketed, and states are looking for new strategies to effectively manage large numbers of men and women who are passing through the criminal justice system.

Approximately 87percentt of the jail population is black and Latino.

At one point last month, the jail population was 811.

What if the jail population cannot be reduced to five thousand?

That was an increase of 3.9percentt in the jail population and 2.3percentt in the prison population.

In 1980, New York City's jail population was about 7,000, he said.