Assessing Risk-Based Policies for Pretrial Release and Split Sentencing in Los Angeles County Jails.

ABSTRACT: Court-mandated downsizing of the CA prison system has led to a redistribution of detainees from prisons to CA county jails, and subsequent jail overcrowding. Using data that is representative of the LA County jail system, we build a mathematical model that tracks the flow of individuals during arraignment, pretrial release or detention, case disposition, jail sentence, and possible recidivism during pretrial release, after a failure to appear in court, during non-felony probation and during felony supervision. We assess 64 joint pretrial release and split-sentencing (where low-level felon sentences are split between jail time and mandatory supervision) policies that are based on the type of charge (felony or non-felony) and the risk category as determined by the CA Static Risk Assessment t

SUBMITTER: Usta M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4694647 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature