A New Kind Of Busing

Arkansas CURE works to promote rehabilitation for the benefit of the community as a whole, and of the incarcerated individual through meaningful criminal justice reform by advocating for meaningful change through the legislative process.

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A New Kind Of Busing

Jan 4, 2013 | JeanT

Busing Arkansas incarcerated citizens to an out of state Private for Profit Prison is not the answer to ‘mass incarceration’ in our State.

Background:

January 2013: 238 Inmates Were Backed Up In AR. County Jails

This Number Stayed Relatively Steady

Until August 2013… Following A Parole System Crackdown

Now 10 Times The Number Of Inmates Are Backed Up In AR. Jails, Less Than 1 Year Later…

Arkansas had a 17.7% jump in the number of state inmates in 2013

The 7th. highest in the nation.
Even Though Prison Populations Across The Country Are Decreasing.
A ‘quick-fix’ to prison overcrowding is a practice of treating incarcerated men and women like commodities.

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A New Kind Of Busing