State Operated Jails: How and Why

Authors

• Schafer E. N/A

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Description

From the 1931 Wickersham Commission through the 1967 President's Commission and the 1973 National Advisory Commission, criminal justice experts and observers have recommended that state governments assume responsibility for jail operations. Currently six states operate jails: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Rhode Island and Vermont. An examination of jail operations in these states shows that history and tradition as well as geography and politics form the impetus for state assumption of jail operations.

Publication Date

3-13-1994

Keywords

Alaska Department of Corrections, Connecticut, corrections, Delaware, Hawaii, jails, Rhode Island, Vermont

Recommended Citation

N/A, Schafer E., "State Operated Jails: How and Why" (1994). Conference papers. 21.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_justice_papers/21

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/10008