Prison Reduction Initiative for COVID-19 and Emergencies (PRICE)

              Prison Reduction Initiative for COVID-19 and  Emergencies (PRICE)                     David Carrier Criminal Justice program design for: [CJ 751] Criminal Justice Policy and Planning April 2021 --------------------- Topic Overview and Problem Summary             The Prison Reduction Initiative for COVID-19 and Emergencies (PRICE) is a program design made to reduce prison population in the United States. Mass incarceration is defined by Oxford Bibliographies as the current American experiment in incarceration, which is defined by comparatively and historically extreme rates of imprisonment [1] and by the concentration of imprisonment among young, African American men living in neighborhoods of concentrated disadvantages [2] . There is no single reason for prison overcrowding, rather it ...