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California Study Finds State Prison Overcrowding Driven by County Policy Decisions, Not Violent Crime Rates

Loaded on June 15, 2012 published in Prison Legal News June, 2012, page 36
Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Criminal Prosecution, Crime, Statistics/Trends. Location: California.
A June 2011 study by Santa Clara University criminal law professor W. David Ball examines the extent to which overcrowding in California’s prisons is a function of decisions made at the county level about how to deal with crime. Ball’s report compiles data from a ten-year period (2000-2009) to show …

 

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