Inforum North Dakota is trying to avoid a prison-building boom. The state has watched its prisons and jails fill up in recent years and has spent $64 million for construction and renovation of the new state penitentiary. Now the state faces the daunting projection...
Great Falls Tribune By Phil Drake HELENA — The Department of Corrections said Tuesday it opened a chemical dependency treatment program at Montana State Prison, a move that may bring change to a Great Falls facility that helps criminal offenders be returned to society...
ArkansasMatters.com By Jessi Turnure Nearly two dozen agencies across Arkansas are working together to reduce the state’s prison population by ten percent in six years. According to the Justice Center of the Council of State Governments, Act 423 passed during...
New program will allow treatment instead of arrests for low-level offenses in New Orleans By Marie Simoneaux mariesimoneaux@nola.com, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune Officials in the New Orleans Police Department’s 8th District are working with the...
KREI (Jefferson City) Missouri’s county jail admissions have been relatively flat since 2010 but jail populations have climbed by 50-percent. The Council of State Government’s Justice Center research also says Missourians in jail for felonies spend an...
