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Those practices, which balance the need for decarceration with public safety concerns, can be applied here, including refusing to jail people for technical violations or commuting sentences for those with less than six months left.

“Both the extreme that we’ve been living with of decarceration, which says that certain crimes and certain criminals will not be prosecuted, as well as the extremes of mass incarceration.”

There were deeper problems with the proposal, such as the fact that the costs of decarceration fall on rural communities that house prisons while the grants were aimed at urban communities, creating a politically difficult disconnect between costs and benefits.

High, a charter school affiliated with decarceration activists at the Los Angeles-based Youth Justice Coalition.

“We need accountability for the horrific conditions, more urgency put to decarceration through connection to services and finally closing Men’s Central Jail,” Parris said.