My career as a teachers aide there were 291 women incarcerated in the entire state of the ohio. Today we have 4300. It has been a trend that is significant and if you think about the lowest crime rate, it is illogical. Weve had some more Current Trends and our population commitment there down a bit overall peers 6 increase in a number i want to talk about women just a second. As a look at the trending of women, what do we know . Its hard to see this. We passed house bill 86 that has caused a significant inmates as they passed the first year of our administration that basically said firsttime nonviolent offenders should not be sent to prison. Thats a remarkable and dramatic name. There is a 14 month consecutive reduction in the prison population. You can see the women as well, but its gone up and now we see 23 of revenue see probation violators. What i want to talk about is this gap between the intake and the actual population. Someone talked about a huge issue as length of stay. 2007 a
Inefficient system. There were, i think, a couple of months ago somebody looked at the Baltimore City jail and found that there were over 100 people there who were incarcerated for awaiting trial because they couldnt make bond of 100. The money bail system discriminates against poor people. It fails to take into account the most important criteria, the most important things we want to know when thinking about deta detaining somebody before trial, is the person likely to show up for trial, number within. Number two, is the person going to offend while he and i say he advisedly, its almost always he while he gets bail. What the Arnold Foundation has done great work, Excellent Way of using data, big data. Looked at over 1. 5 million cases and trieded to determine what would be priedictive of whether somebody vee late or offend out on bail and show up for trial. And the factors arent what you might intuitively think what judges think. Well, he lives with his mother, sure hes going to show
Get a big time designer at a discounts. And searchers recover a body from a small plane that crash in new york after taking off from pennsylvania. But the big story is Montgomery County, they are trying to sort out what happened inside. Katherine scott is following the investigation and joins us live at the scene. Reporter sara, we do know that one man is in custody in connection to this double homicide but its still early in the investigation and investigators have not commented extensively on what happened here. But multiple shots were fired in this complex last night. A 4yearold boy was present but not injured. This all remains under investigation, this morning investigators carried out a door marred by bullet holes after a double homicide last night in norristown, police were called to the park Place Apartments on sandy street just before 11 15 last night. When Police Arrived they found 46yearold marvel edwards lying dead in a hallway and another man in the adjacent apartment. Both
His legal team saying this afternoon newman was taking responsibility for his actions. Brian admitted that he made a mistake. I mean we all do that. You may say we all do our taxes but we also make mistakes. And one of the things that pete and i had to do was put our client in the best possible situation. When he found out about it we turned him in, he wanted to take full responsibility so we pled him today and hes rready to move on with his life. Newman is sentenced to two years probation suspended to six months once he pays almost 11 thousand dollars in back taxes and court costs. Councilman washington though, has three failure to pay charges and he has not entered a plea. But his tax problems also linked to that dor investigation. At last report his attorneys had not indicated there would be an upcoming hearing on his case. One of them has said theres no claim by the state that washington mishandled penny tax money. Live at the Judicial Center jack kuenzie wis news ten. Still no wor
Newman will not get jail time for tax charges. Charges against newman and Richland County councilman kelvin washington came up after a state investigation into the use of penny sales tax money. Jack kuenzie is at the Richland County Judicial Center with the latest. Dawndy and charlesthe former City Council Member wasted no time resolving problems. A bond hearing this morningand a guilty plea this afternoon. Newman pleaded guilty to failing to file state tax returns for the years 2012 and 2013. He toto a judge he thought t d filed for those years. His admission involved back taxes totalling a little more than 98 hundred dollars which he has agreed to pay along with prosecution costs of an additional thousand dollars. These charges came about as the state department of revenue was looking into the backgrounds of people connected to the penny tax effortbut in to make it clear his issues were personal and have nothing to do with tax revenues. Hes not involved in the sales tax investigation