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Guide to The Issues 2020: Criminal Justice Reform Georgia Public Policy Foundation georgiapolicy.org Phase One: Georgia’s Adult Justice Challenge: The Special Council concluded incarceration should concentrate on violent offenders who pose a public safety threat; non-serious offenders should be diverted to community-based treatment.
- PURPOSE OF REPORT
- SENTENCES OF FIVE YEARS OR LESS
- YOUTH
- White 51.9%
- Adult Population
- Male 47.9% Female 52.1%
- WHITES BLACKS
- NUMBER OF YOUTH REFERRALS IN GEORGIA, BY RACE, 2010–2019
- YDC
- All Other Races
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Carl Vinson Institute of Government Authors and Contributors
- Carl Vinson Institute of Government
The Georgia Criminal Justice Data Landscape Report is provided as a service to the public and to policy makers interested in Georgia’s criminal justice system. This report is intended to be a reference and Contains a look back at the past decade of data on Georgia’s adult and juvenile justice systems Serves as a single go-to source for data, charts...
decreased as use of alternative sentences increased Number of individuals under
Sources: Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget; Georgia Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, Juvenile Justice Data Exchange
Note: “All Other Races” in the adult population data includes Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, and Two or More Races. “All Other Races” in the arrest data includes Asian and Native American.
Note: “All Other Races” includes Indian, Latinx, Native American, Native Hawaiian, Unknown, and Other. Races within the Other category are not specified in the data. Latinx is included in All Other Races because it is considered a race in the incarceration data; however, in the population data, people of Latinx origin can be of any race. The perce...
Sources: US Census Bureau; Georgia Department of Corrections
Arrest – Secure Detention (RYDC) – Delinquent – Referral – Petition – Commitment – Diversion – Secure Confinement (YDC) – The number of White youth involved in the juvenile justice system declined the most at six decisions points—arrest, referral, secure detention (RYDC), petition, delinquent, and commitment. The number of Black youth decreased the...
Source: Georgia Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse, Juvenile Justice Data Exchange
Source: Georgia Juvenile Justice Data Clearinghouse, Juvenile Justice Data Exchange
Source: Georgia Juvenile Justice Data Clearinghouse, Juvenile Justice Data Exchange
The Institute of Government would like to thank the analysts, writers, editors, and graphic artists who helped gather, analyze, visualize, and describe the data in the report. Each section of the report was developed in consultation with subject matter experts and was reviewed by state agency data experts when possible.
David Tanner Associate Director Holly Lynde Fiscal Analyst Emily Franklin Fiscal Analyst Sandy Lee Consultant Courtney-Alford Pomeroy Communications Director Jake Brower Graphic Designer Karen DeVivo Editor Kelly Howard Graphic Designer Jan Coyne Cartographer
The Carl Vinson Institute of Government is a public service unit of the University of Georgia that has been providing training and technical assistance to governments in Georgia for more than 90 years. The mission of the Institute of Government is to promote excellence in government. We work to increase the capacity of governments in Georgia to bet...
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Georgia. Updated: August 21, 2023 6:55 PM UTC. Recent national declines in incarceration mask significant differences in jail and prison population and admission trends across states and regions. Use the data below to explore how incarceration varies across Georgia along key incarceration metrics. +671%.
Feb 8, 2023 · Along with recent prison population reductions, several states have seen significant declines in crime, sometimes outpacing nationwide crime trends. 10 For example, between 1999 and 2020, when New York more than halved its prison population, the state’s violent crime rate fell by 38% while the U.S. violent crime rate fell by 24%. 11 Decarceratio...
pandemic, between March and June 2020, the state saw a total reduction of 26.9% of people in county jails. After June 2020, the number of people incarcerated in county jails increased 14% through November 2020.
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Since 1980, the number of women in jail has increased 1,107%, and the number of women in prison has increased 600%. In Georgia, Black people constituted 32% of state residents, but 51% of people in jail and 60% of people in prison. Incarceration is not only an urban phenomenon. In fact, on a per capita basis, the most rural places in the state ...
Jun 7, 2024 · Bar charts showing that in Georgia prisons and jails, incarceration rates are highest for Black residents.
