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
Where is the provision for of this piece . Because if we cant get these middle schoolers who are now ramping up, if we cant find them, stop them when theyre in middle school, all this is for not. Thats what we need to be going is middle school, maybe even Elementary School but at least middle school. Where is this going with juveniles . Weve looked at the version of youth and out of home please months, 90,000 a year bad for use in georgia. Recidivism rate is between 5065 . We came up with a fiscal Incentive Grant Program and we have 29 counties in georgia who represented 70 of georgias atrisk youth to build evidencebased programs. We gave them the money that have been proven to reduce recidivism and we asked them to reduce out of home placement by 15 completion report. They reduced by 62 . 1666 a year are now being triggered an evidencebased programs. Thats one way to get the most important thing and the point youre making, my wife is an Elementary School teacher, when we have conversa
Those people we afraid of because they will hurt someone or properly secured but program did not forgotten in those people that we are just mad at and dont have any other alternatives, we build alternatives in the community to deal with those folks. Intervention in little. It has not been used as much, but we want to expand the opportunity. We want to give the judge an opportunity. Forget about mandatory sentences. Opposingnkly, we are almost all mandatory sentences. We have judges to make decisions for lets not high their hands and say they have to send someone to prison. A person comes in and the judge says i want to be helped, or the judge convinces them and much like the drug courts we have talked about, or veterans courts or Mental Health courts, they enter into a program of diversion and they talk about with the judge what they need to do and they set specific times and goals and if they do it, one of the greatest things judges are great positive influences on people. If they kno
I think it is both. You can see the consistency between males and females in terms of the top five. Drug possession is the number one most serious offense for which people are sent to prison in ohio. 21. 5 of females, women, their most serious offense for which they are sent to prisons drug possession. You can see the following numbers on the sheet. On the screen. As we take a look at this, is it a problem or is it an opportunity. The opportunity for everyone in this room, and i think our justice talked about it earlier. Everyone in this room is going to have to talk about this story , and the story of your jurisdiction. I happened to be at a church about three weeks ago on a tuesday night doing a criminal andice information piece, the church was full, which is interesting thing. The church was full. It is a lot of interest. I asked a couple of preliminary questions before i started talking. The first is how are we doing in the criminal justice business . I would suggest to you that th