Overcrowding often causes increases in inmate lawsuits. Overcrowding often forces local governments to ship offenders to neighboring jails at costly daily rates, compounding security and budget concerns. Overcrowding can cause dangerous working conditions for those who work inside the jail. Severely overcrowded jails often fall under federal mandates that impose unnecessary litigation, federal intervention and costly fines. Overcrowding often creates increases in staff turnover and overtime pay for jail personnel.
Clogged jails interrupt the judicial process.
Experience shows that communities are not going to build their way out of the problem of jail overcrowding. New options are needed that keep the public safe, achieve criminal justice system goals, and are cost effective. BI can also implement an intense, highly accountable BI-managed inmate supervision program. BI supplies jails with a wide range of offender compliance technologies designed to properly protect the community by closely supervising, monitoring and sanctioning offenders. For over fifteen years, BI has assisted hundreds of agencies in setting up effective and highly accountable monitoring programs that have reduced jail overcrowding.