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| Sonoma County incarcerating fewer people |
| By pressdemocrat.com- Paul Payne |
| Published: 04/13/2015 |
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Sonoma County is putting fewer people behind bars since the passage of landmark legislation three years ago to ease prison overcrowding, the head of a state corrections board said Friday. Last year, county residents were incarcerated at a rate of about 400 per every 100,000, a 22 percent decline over 2007, when 509 out of every 100,000 residents were in jail or prison, according to data from the Board of State and Community Corrections. By comparison, the average incarceration rate for all 58 counties over the same period dropped 19 percent, the data said. “You’re trending down,” Linda Penner, the board’s chairwoman, told a statewide gathering of criminal justice officials and advocates of overhauling prisons who met in Santa Rosa on Friday. Read More. |
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