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Law Enforcement and Jail Capacity: Impact of Arrests Trends on the Philadelphia Inmate Population: A Working Report on Prison Population Management and Alternatives
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Law Enforcement and Jail Capacity: Impact of Arrests Trends on the Philadelphia Inmate Population: A Working Report on Prison Population Management and Alternatives
Publication year:
2000
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The influence of law enforcement upon the inmate population as reflected in arrests, in particular for drug offenses, is examined. Topics addressed include: trends in the Philadelphia prisons' population; trends in reported crime and arrests from 1996 through 1999; arrest trends and the inmate population; trends in municipal court preliminary arraignments and the inmate population; the geography of arrest activity and its impact; enrollment in treatment and the inmate population; and law enforcement patterns and the inmate populations -- implications for confinement alternatives. This report also has an executive summary.