Some Missouri lawmakers want to lower the jail population, especially for older incarcerated people, because of safety concerns and staffing shortages. A new proposal has surfaced to bring state prison populations down – but it would require approval from Congress. It’s known as the Public Safety and Prison Reduction Act, and it would pay states to rethink their sentencing policies and reduce their prison populations. Attorney Hernandez Stroud is with the Brennan Center for Justice, which is making the proposal. He points to state prisons as the core issue in mass incarceration, holding 87 percent of people incarcerated in the U-S.
Every year, around 128-thousand people are booked into local jails in Missouri, although most jail stays are temporary. About 23-thousand people are in Missouri state prisons.
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