Research Report Using Cross-System Collaboration to Reduce the Use of Jails
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Implementation Lessons from East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, the City and County of San Francisco, and St. Louis County, Missouri
Storm Ervin, Azhar Gulaid
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Jails in the United States are overused, overcrowded, and carry significant individual and systemic impacts for people of color, who are disproportionately jailed pretrial. People are detained in jail via actions and processes that occur across agencies and decision points, making cross-agency collaboration essential to system responses to reduce the jail population. This case study, part of a series highlighting work supported by the Safety and Justice Challenge, examines the experiences of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, the City and County of San Francisco, and St. Louis County, Missouri, which implemented strategies intended to reduce local jail populations by creating collaborative bodies in their respective jurisdictions.

Research Areas Crime, justice, and safety
Tags Alternatives to incarceration Mass incarceration
Policy Centers Justice Policy Center
Research Methods Qualitative data analysis
States Louisiana California Missouri
Counties East Baton Rouge Parish St. Louis County San Francisco County
Cities San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA
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