Journal of Crime and Justice, a publication of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.The research involved 30 hours of observation inside a county jail and interviews with the jail employees.
Richie chose to focus on a jail in a suburban or rural area because there’s already so much known about what goes on in urban parts of the country.
In this case, he wanted to investigate a population where resources are limited and recidivism rates are high.“If you leave the Milwaukee County Jail, there are 100 services — for mental health, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, human trafficking, you name it, they have something for it and some nonprofit wants to help you,” he said. “But what we know about suburban and rural areas is that those services are.
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