Report Blames Undue Pressure From State Commission of Corrections Dramatic Jail Expansion Comes at a Time When Prison Population Is Decreasing

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* In Tompkins County, the SCOC pressured county officials to expand their 73-bed jail to a size far greater than what the County Legislature projected was required. When county officials voted to pursue alternatives to incarceration rather than build a larger jail, the SCOC threatened to punish the county. The county did not build a new jail, but SCOC revoked a variance that had allowed the county to maintain its current jail population, which forced the county to spend money to board a percentage of its prisoners in neighboring counties.

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Report Blames Undue Pressure From State Commission of Corrections Dramatic Jail Expansion Comes at a Time When Prison Population Is Decreasing

A report released y by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on the expansion of jails in upstate and suburban New York finds that the recent increase in jail expansion is most of...

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