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CJCC tells Toledo committee it helped leverage $10.2 million and reports 42% drop in local jail population
Summary
Presenters from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council told the Toledo Public Safety Committee the CJCC has leveraged about $10.2 million since 2014, credited adoption of risk-based tools with a roughly 42% reduction in jail population and outlined reentry and diversion strategies now under evaluation by Harvard.
The Toledo City Council Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Committee on Tuesday heard a broad update from the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC) on reentry, diversion and data-sharing initiatives that CJCC leaders said have reduced pretrial and sentenced jail populations and expanded services.
A CJCC executive director told the committee the council, established by city ordinance and a county resolution in 1972, has helped the city and county leverage roughly $10.2 million in funding since 2014 and secured about $4.7 million in competitive federal grants for reentry programs. “We have realized … a 42% reduction in our jail population,” the presenter said, describing that decline as both pretrial and sentenced.
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