THURSDAY, March 4 — An Ingham County Prosecutor’s Office report shows that the number of defendants headed to prison in Greater Lansing decreased by more than 60% last year, in part due to the inability of courtrooms to operate at full-speed during the coronavirus pandemic.
Here are some quick takeaways from the report:
Here are some quick statistics from the report:
Ingham County Prison Commitments
2013 — 266
2014 — 268
2015 — 341
2016 — 311
2017 — 237
2018 — 248
2019 — 189
2020 — 73
The Pew Research Center reports that the federal prison population also declined by about 5% — or about 7,607 inmates — between 2017 and 2019, President Donald Trump’s first year in office. Preliminary figures also show that decline continued (and even accelerated) into 2020. Again, part of that decrease was also attributed to policy changes in response to COVID-19.
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