Webin a victory for open government, the second circuit court of appeals today ruled that erie county must unseal reports on the conditions in its jails. The decision is a. Webin erie county, 14 percent of county residents are black, but in contrast, on any given day in march 2019, before bail reform, 55 percent of people held in jail in erie. Webdetermining the future of the erie county jails is a monumental task. Legislators need to have all the data in order to make the right decision, and the current. Webracial disparities in erie county jail population numbers have increased since bail reform. In the second quarter of 2019, black people made up 15 percent of the erie county. — earlier in 2023 erie county executive mark poloncarz mentioned the idea of a new county jail with a significant $100 million to 200 million. Webthis policy brief presents data on the makeup of the erie county jail population, which has reduced by 48% since 2017. It examines the capacity of both jails. Webthe erie county jail was built in 1877 with room for 200 prisoners. It was connected by an underground passage with what was then buffalo city hall (and… for. Webright now, the two facilities combined have about 700 personnel guarding around 500 inmates, a ratio unseen in the state prison system, where inmates outnumber their. Weba local activist's column on erie county's new jail proposal misinterprets the effectiveness of carceral policies and wrongly advocates for addressing root causes.
