NCJ Number
248497
Date Published
November 2014
Length
1 page
Annotation
This infographic highlights the impact the 2011 passage of North Carolina's Justice Reinvestment Act has had on the State.
Abstract
This infographic reflects on North Carolina's successes three years after the Justice Reinvestment Act became law in 2011. Through transforming probation supervision, reinventing how treatment is funded and delivered, reserving prison space for the most serious offenders, and supervising people released from prison the State has reduced the prison population by 8 percent, closed 10 prisons, saved or averted an estimated $560 million in costs, funded 175 probation officer positions, increased the number of people released from prison who receive post-release supervision, and reduced probation revocations significantly, all while experiencing a decrease in crime of 11 percent.