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The Billions We’re Wasting in Our Jails – Researchers suggest ways to reduce jail, prison spending in Montana

By using data analytics to make decisions about pretrial detention, local governments could find substantial savings while making their communities safer.

by Stephen Goldsmith, Jane Wiseman

Full Story: http://www.governing.com/blogs/bfc/gov-pretrial-detention-cost-savings-risk-data-analytics.html

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Researchers suggest ways to reduce jail, prison spending in Montana

Montana could reduce its spending on jails and prisons if detention facilities and treatment programs focused their services on those most likely to re-offend while others could be supervised by an increased number of probation and parole officers, researchers said.

The primary driver of costs and growth in the state’s criminal justice system is past offenders committing new crimes or people being returned to custody for violating terms of their probation or parole, the Council of State Governments Justice Center found.

Full Story: http://billingsgazette.com/news/crime/researchers-suggest-ways-to-reduce-jail-prison-spending-in-montana/article_e5259b6e-77c1-5868-9bfe-a898b39085da.html

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