FEDERAL PRISON POPULATION DROPS BY NEARLY 5,000 - FIRST TIME IN DECADES
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal prison population has dropped in the last year by roughly 4,800, the first time in several decades that the inmate count has gone down, according to the Justice Department.
In a speech scheduled Tuesday in New York City, Attorney General Eric Holder planned to say that the Justice Department expects to end the current budget year next week with a prison population of roughly 215,000 inmates.
That figure would represent a drop of nearly 5,000 from the inmate count one year ago. It would also be the first time since 1980 that the federal prison population has declined during the course of a fiscal year.
In addition, internal figures from the Bureau of Prisons show a projected drop of more than 2,000 inmates in the next year, and nearly 10,000 in the year after, according to excerpts of his remarks.
The crime rate has dropped along with the prison population, Holder said, proving that "longer-than-necessary prison terms" don't improve public safety.
"In fact, the opposite is often true," he said, according to the remarks, which were being delivered at a conference at the New York University law school organized by the Brennan Center for Justice.
With policies that have at times unsettled prosecutors and others in law enforcement, Holder has worked in the last year to reduce a prison population he says is costly and bloated.
In August 2013, for instance, he announced a major shift in sentencing policy, instructing federal prosecutors to stop charging many nonviolent drug defendants with offenses that carry mandatory minimum sentences. More recently, the Justice Department has encouraged a broader swath of the prison population to apply for clemency, and has supported reductions in sentencing guidelines for drug offenders that could apply to tens of thousands of inmates.
Holder was also expected to say that there should be new ways for the government to measure success of its criminal justice policies beyond how many people are prosecuted and sent to prison.
In this era, he said, "It's no longer adequate - or appropriate - to rely on outdated models that prize only enforcement, as quantified by numbers of prosecutions, convictions, and lengthy sentences, rather than taking a holistic view."
The Brennan Center, a public policy and law institute, issued a report Tuesday urging new success measures for U.S. attorney offices, including comparing the change in the violent crime rate and the percentage of violent crimes on the docket compared to the previous year.
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In a speech scheduled Tuesday in New York City, Attorney General Eric Holder planned to say that the Justice Department expects to end the current budget year next week with a prison population of roughly 215,000 inmates.
That figure would represent a drop of nearly 5,000 from the inmate count one year ago. It would also be the first time since 1980 that the federal prison population has declined during the course of a fiscal year.
In addition, internal figures from the Bureau of Prisons show a projected drop of more than 2,000 inmates in the next year, and nearly 10,000 in the year after, according to excerpts of his remarks.
The crime rate has dropped along with the prison population, Holder said, proving that "longer-than-necessary prison terms" don't improve public safety.
"In fact, the opposite is often true," he said, according to the remarks, which were being delivered at a conference at the New York University law school organized by the Brennan Center for Justice.
With policies that have at times unsettled prosecutors and others in law enforcement, Holder has worked in the last year to reduce a prison population he says is costly and bloated.
In August 2013, for instance, he announced a major shift in sentencing policy, instructing federal prosecutors to stop charging many nonviolent drug defendants with offenses that carry mandatory minimum sentences. More recently, the Justice Department has encouraged a broader swath of the prison population to apply for clemency, and has supported reductions in sentencing guidelines for drug offenders that could apply to tens of thousands of inmates.
Holder was also expected to say that there should be new ways for the government to measure success of its criminal justice policies beyond how many people are prosecuted and sent to prison.
In this era, he said, "It's no longer adequate - or appropriate - to rely on outdated models that prize only enforcement, as quantified by numbers of prosecutions, convictions, and lengthy sentences, rather than taking a holistic view."
The Brennan Center, a public policy and law institute, issued a report Tuesday urging new success measures for U.S. attorney offices, including comparing the change in the violent crime rate and the percentage of violent crimes on the docket compared to the previous year.
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Follow Eric Tucker on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/etuckerAP
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Good ? or is this the calm in the storm for us?
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If you gotta do time. Go Fed. That's the best time
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Oya_Husband wrote: »Good ? or is this the calm in the storm for us?
Na, them new ? laws gettin ? out. Plus the feds really ain't sendin ? up top for weed like they used to. You gotta damn near get a truck in to see real time. Not to mention you have State BCIs and stuff like that now, and big cities doing their own investigations and sweeps usin that drug interdiction money to make themselves more powerful. Check the state prison pop. I'm sure there may be a rise there.If you gotta do time. Go Fed. That's the best time
Especially if your points low, and you a level 3 or lower. Plus you don't have to do day for day. Only thing about the feds, there's no judicial release, and you're gonna come out on paper, don't matter if it's 1 year or 10. It's the worse if you a snitch too because ? gon wanna see that paperwork, and 5K1s is damning to your existence.
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Will the prison try to get that number up?
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*Prison system
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The clapping them boys or using them for experiments
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What's the overall prison population like along the same juncture?
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I just wanna thank the 80s
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Black excellence?
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_Lefty a lie. My older brother gettin out the feds in February and he won't be on no paper bruh. Only way you see paper is if they let tou out the feds early and that's IF cause the feds usually make yoi do all your time.
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Why is your brother in jail? The feds don't make you do say for day bruh. My homie just left big sandy, had 10 to do in 06 and he'll be home in march. This happens all the time, the only ? I ever seen do all his time is my homie that got violated on his fed probation. He had to back for 18 months and came back out on a year paper. I don't know your bro but I know what I'm talkin about.
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This sounds good but it means nothing because state prison population is at a all time high. In the state I'm from ? getting sent down for ? that use to get you county time.