Tahir Duckett, the executive director of the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law, says the center first became interested in learning more about Fulton County’s incarceration trends following the decarceration success at the Atlanta City Detention Center (ACDC).
On Monday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Dukett talked with show host Rose Scott about a new study released by the Center for Innovations in Community Safety at Georgetown Law titled “Reducing Jail Overcrowding Without Increasing Crime: Lessons from Fulton County, Georgia.”
According to the study, Fulton County jails people at a higher rate than other urban counties, driving the county’s overcrowding crisis.
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