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Longtime de-incarceration advocates are insisting on the increased use of compassionate release and home confinement during the current pandemic, and ask why officials can\u2019t continue to make these modest releases\u2014and then some\u2014after the pandemic passes, especially if crime doesn\u2019t rise as a result and cash-strapped states want the biggest bang for their public safety bucks?\u00a0\u00a0 Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law writes<\/a> that “reformers, who\u2019ve been fighting for years against warehousing older and sick inmates in particular, see a glimmer of hope that this generational tragedy could serve to promote a more evidence-based approach to crime and punishment.”<\/p>\n

Jeremiah Mosteller\u00a0 policy counsel at the bipartisan Due Process Institute, said \u201cmany of the reforms advocates have been calling for in recent years are being implemented temporarily in justice systems across our country.\u201d\u00a0 So the pandemic \u201ccould serve as a tipping point for the recent momentum to implement evidence-based policies and other reforms in our criminal justice system,\u201d Mosteller said.\u00a0 By “evidence-based policies” we’re guessing he means computer algorithms to predict which criminals are likely to re-offend if released early or sentenced to a community program.\u00a0 Never mind that the algorithms have been proven frequently\u00a0 wrong with tragic results and have been labeled racially biased by minority rights groups.\u00a0\u00a0 Data<\/a> compiled by UCLA indicates that so far over 67,000 criminals have been released from jails and prisons across the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0 With just a few hundred deaths recorded out of a population of 2.2 million inmates, the risk is lower than that of the general population.\u00a0 Yet the media is telling us that “Covid-19 has ravaged the nation\u2019s prisons. Scores of inmates are dead. More are sick. And the healthy ones are at risk daily, despite calls for federal and state officials across all three branches of government to do more to save lives.”\u00a0 Hogwash.<\/p>\n

It has also been widely reported that while thousands of inmates have been released during the pandemic, crime rates are down.\u00a0 But our own Kent Scheidegger suggested that the current crime rate data is misleading.\u00a0 \u201cAs the country reopens,\u201d he said, \u201cthe effect of releases will show in statistics as well. Perhaps this will be the event that wakes the public up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Longtime de-incarceration advocates are insisting on the increased use of compassionate release and home confinement during the current pandemic, and ask why officials can\u2019t continue to make these modest releases\u2014and then some\u2014after the pandemic passes, especially if crime doesn\u2019t rise as a result and cash-strapped states want the biggest bang for their public safety bucks?\u00a0\u00a0 Jordan S. Rubin of Bloomberg Law writes that “reformers, who\u2019ve been fighting for years against warehousing older and sick inmates in particular, see a glimmer of hope that this generational tragedy could serve to promote a more evidence-based approach to crime and punishment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"\nUsing the Pandemic to Empty Out Prisons - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=1215\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Using the Pandemic to Empty Out Prisons - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Longtime de-incarceration advocates are insisting on the increased use of compassionate release and home confinement during the current pandemic, and ask why officials can\u2019t continue to make these modest releases\u2014and then some\u2014after the pandemic passes, especially if crime doesn\u2019t rise as a result and cash-strapped states want the biggest bang for their public safety bucks?\u00a0\u00a0 Jordan S. 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