When Cincinnati closed a jail in 2008, it reduced the city’s jail capacity by more than a third. The police were forced to make fewer arrests, causing people to worry violent crime would increase. It didn’t. In fact, it fell by 38.5%.
Incarceration Is Always a Policy Failure
Instead of building ‘humane jails’ to replace Rikers Island, let’s push the NYPD to cut down on arrests.
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