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| Wash. County Told Programs Could Cut its Jail Costs |
| By Everett Herald |
| Published: 03/18/2003 |
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A consultant's advice that Snohomish County must do more to tackle social ills if it wants to reduce jail crowding could soon become official county policy. The county council is considering adopting a motion to more closely tie human services programs with efforts to reduce recidivism among local offenders. The change could be voted on as early as this week. Local social service agencies now receive about $30 million each year in federal grants. The idea of the motion is to send a clear message that the county wants more grant money directed toward people who are in trouble with the law, said Jeff Sax, chairman of the council's law and justice committee. Getting more offenders to complete anger management programs or job training or treatment for drugs and alcohol should reduce repeat offenses, and ultimately reduce the county's burgeoning criminal justice costs, Sax said. The idea is in keeping with the recommendations of Alan Kalmanoff, who leads the California-based Institute for Law and Policy Planning. He was hired last year to conduct a $140,000 study of ways to improve the county's criminal justice system. Kalmanoff found the county is not doing enough to attack problems with drugs and alcohol abuse and domestic violence. Those issues all loom large among the reasons people are being locked away, often repeatedly for the same misbehaviors, the consultant found. Kalmonoff's ideas also are supported by a 2002 computer analysis by The Herald of more than 110,000 bookings at the county's jail in Everett over the previous 5 1/2years. The analysis found that about 2 percent of the county's jail inmates are what corrections officials call 'frequent fliers,' repeatedly cycling in and out of jail for a series of usually petty offenses, most often connected to drugs, alcohol abuse and domestic violence, and almost never serious enough to send them to a state prison. Together, these 1,100 repeat offenders accounted for nearly one-fifth of all the county jail time served here between 1996 and mid-2002. It cost the community about $20 million to repeatedly lock away the same people, the data showed. Some of the worst repeat offenders were booked into the jail more than 30 times during the period studied. Sax last week said the county wants the social service experts' help in stopping that behavior. Although some of the 'frequent fliers' likely won't be reached, some probably will, and 'if we can keep them out of jail we are doing a good job,' said Sax, a Republican from the county's sound end. Costs associated with arresting suspects, hauling them to court and locking them away now consume nearly 70 percent of the county's annual general fund. For 2003, that is expected to be $113.5 million of the $165.2 million total. |
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