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Time Served: The High Cost, Low Return of Longer Prison Terms

The length of time served in prison has increased markedly over the last two decades, according to a new study by Pew's Public Safety Performance Project. Prisoners released in 2009 served an average of nine additional months in custody, or 36 percent longer, than offenders released in 1990.

Over the past 40 years, criminal justice policy in the U.S. was shaped by the belief that the best way to protect the public was to put more people in prison. Offenders, the reasoning went, should spend longer and longer time behind bars.

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Study: Arresting Youth for Common Misbehavior Harms Public Safety | The Children's Campaign

Florida’s second annual comprehensive study of alternatives to juvenile arrests for common youth misbehavior — called “Stepping Up: Florida’s Top Juvenile Civil Citation Efforts 2016” — shows counties that arrest youth rather than issue civil citations create more reoffenders who generate more crime, running counter to law enforcement’s basic responsibility to reduce crime. Juvenile civil citations are an alternative to arrest for common youth misbehavior. Authored by one of Florida’s top juvenile civil citation experts and supported by state and national juvenile justice reform organizations, the study also shows increasing the use of civil citations statewide up to 75% would enable law & order entities to invest up to $62 million in preventing and addressing felonies and serious crimes, as well as significantly improve life outcomes for nearly 7,000 arrested youth. The 2016 top-performing counties for civil citation include: Baker, Bay, Broward, Dade, Lafayette, Leon, Pinellas, Seminole, Marion, Monroe, Nassau, Union, Wakulla.
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Reform needed in criminal justice system

“In a perfect criminal justice system, those who break the law would be punished, rehabilitated and released to live productive crime-free lives. The punishment would fit the crime and the crime rate would go down.

In Florida we do not have a perfect system. We don’t even have a good system. We have good people but our process is disjointed, convoluted and contrary to the intended objectives.”

Paula Dockery, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST 

Read the full article at:  http://tallahasseedemocrat.fl.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=0b4b776bb

Reformers had intuited what more than a century of research and experience now confirms: keeping kids out of the criminal justice system makes them less likely to break the law a second time, particularly when they get effective services that address the root causes of their behavior.

David LaBahn, President, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/us-courts-still-shackle-children-minor-crimes

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