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The County Jail Reimbursement Program: What Are the Issues?
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The County Jail Reimbursement Program (CJRP) is one tool Michigan "has used to encourage the appropriate use of nonprison sanctions for offenders who otherwise likely would be sent to prison" (p. 1). This report looks at issues surrounding prison diversion and how they have been impacted by comprehensive sentencing guidelines. Sections of this report include: introduction; CJRP description; sentencing guidelines and CJRP criteria; straddle cell offenders; habitual offenders; third-offense drunk drivers; larceny threshold changes; jail utilization; length of stay in jail; numbers of dispositions; CJRP and 1988 PA 511; data reliability; and questions for policy makers.