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Unfortunately, the lessons we learned and shared in 1961 have not stuck. As a new report from Vera released this month makes clear, jail incarceration remains all too common and, for the most part, unnecessary. On any given day in the United States, there are 731,000 people sitting in more than 3,000 jails. professional bail bonds

With strong bipartisan support for sentencing reform and re-entry supports for people leaving prison—making strange bedfellows of the likes of the Koch brothers and the ACLU—this is perhaps our once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to effect comprehensive and enduring criminal justice reform. But to be successful, we need start at the beginning, at incarceration’s front door—our local jails. bail bonds orange county ca, bond and bail Despite the country growing safer—with violent crime down 49% and property crime down 44% from their highest levels more than 20 years ago—annual admissions to jails nearly doubled between 1983 and 2013, from six million to 11.7 million. This is equivalent to the combined populations of Los Angeles and New York City and nearly 20 times the annual admissions to state and federal prisons. volusia county bail bonds

And underlying the behavior that lands many people in jail in the first place, there is often a history of substance abuse, mental illness, poverty, failure in school, and homelessness. Moreover, jailing practices have had a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Nationally, African Americans are jailed at almost four times the rate of white Americans. inmate locator los angeles county, county for los angeles ca