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Title: Criminalizing Migrants: Immigrant Detention Explodes in Louisiana and Mississippi

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: It was good news for supporters of criminal justice reform this past spring when the Louisiana Department of Corrections announced a signifcant drop in the state’s prison population as a result of 2017 sentencing reform bills. At a press conference on June 13, state offcials touted a 20 percent decrease of persons incarcerated for nonviolent crimes and a 42 percent decrease in the number of persons sent to prison for drug possession since the reforms were implemented. The total number of persons imprisoned in Louisiana at the end of 2018 was 32,397, almost 19 percent lower than its peak in 2012. The governor told reporters that Louisiana was no longer the “incarceration capital” of the nation, and that “shedding that title is just the beginning.”

Url: http://www.loyno.edu/jsri/sites/loyno.edu.jsri/files/JSRI Newsletter Fall 2019_Weishar.pdf

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Authors: Weishar, Sue

Publisher: Jesuit Social Research Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Crime and Deviance, Migration and Immigration, Other

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