The number of admissions of new inmates to Rikers Island dropped nearly 50 percent between 1995 and 2015, with the sharpest rate of decline coming among 16-to-21-year-olds, according to a new study by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“This dramatic decline in jail admissions [47 percent] occurred against the backdrop of a simultaneous decrease in reported crime of more than 60 percent,” said a press release accompanying the report.
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