How long should you leave someone in County Jail for a Non Violent Offense– Before bailing them out?

The answer is get them out as soon as possible, unless it is a violent crime, there’s no logical reason for someone to stay in where there is limited or no rehabilitation as article-after-article have made clear. Over 50% of all people being held in Federal / State and County Facilities are being held for a drug related crime.The United States has only 5% of the world’s population, but it has 25% of those being incarcerated. Half of the people in jail and prison are there for non-violent crimes.

NYU Professor James Gilligan stated in a recent article “ Punishment Fails, Rehabilitation Works” for the Federal Government; if other institutions in American were as unsuccessful in achieving their purpose as our prisons are, they would have been shut down long ago. 

It would be beneficial to every man, woman and child and harmful to none, if we were to demolish every prison and replace them with locked, safe and secure home-like residential communities with every type of therapy for substance abuse , psychotherapy and medical treatment) and every form of education for getting degrees while being locked up. 

Prisoners should be treated with exactly the same degree of kindness as we would hope to show to others after they return to the community. Only the above stated type of program has been shown to be successful and prevent the large recidivism rate that currently occurs. 

On any given day, three-quarters of a million people are jail inmates and two-thirds of them haven't been convicted of anything, according to US Department of Justice statistics. They are awaiting trial, and an estimated 80 percent of them cannot afford to pay bail.

Most won't go to prison: Overall, 95 percent of those booked into local jails in 2010-11 were not subsequently sent to prison, says Timothy Murray of the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI). And 75 percent of felony defendants will be judged innocent, given probation, or sent to rehabilitation programs and never end up being sentenced to prison, says longtime correctional researcher James Gilligan.

Many defendants, serve more time waiting for trial than the sentence they receive for their charges – particularly for petty or probation-worthy offenses. 

New Jersey costs of $35K annually in Jails to keep someone incarcerated and $55K annually in prison all of which is paid by the taxpayers. We can defer some of these costs by directing someone to a reputable bail company and getting non violent criminals out of the system and back to work where possible.

So once again, get them out now, there is no advantage to either the defendant or the Criminal Justice System financially, to have them behind bars

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