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“It's a moment in time and it has gone away and the prison population in New Jersey is now in the business of rebuilding itself,” Clear said. The last person freed early was on October 4th.
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When Murphy ended the state’s public health emergency this summer, he also ended the window for early releases. “All it did was to move some arrests that would have occurred downstream to earlier.”īut those releases have now stopped. “This law did not change public safety whatsoever,” Clear said. He said the percentage of people likely to be re-arrested stays the same, it just happens sooner. While there’s no data yet on the rates of recidivism among those released early, Clear said several studies show that reducing an individual’s time in prison by a few months does not affect recidivism. “If we have a system where the government is to be held accountable for people in its custody, that means making sure that we give people who are incarcerated the best chances of survival.” “We're talking about people who were going to be released anyway,” said Sinha, of the ACLU that helped come up with the measure. Under the law, the state warned local prosecutors of who was being released and banned former prisoners from contacting their victims. Those convicted of murder, first-degree sexual assault, or repeat sexual offenders were not elligible. The law essentially sped up the earning of “good time off” and gave people public health credits, or reductions in their sentence due to the pandemic. “New Jersey was the most aggressive and it was the most expansive across the largest proportion of the population,” Clear said.
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He said the prison census dropped to numbers not seen since the 1980s. “New Jersey's prison population plummeted under the law, reaching a level that it had not been in for decades and creating a much more manageable … population for the correction system,” said Todd Clear, a university professor at Rutgers who specializes in criminal justice. The first-in-the-nation measure ultimately freed nearly 5,300 adults and juveniles from state custody over the last 11 months. In October 2020, Governor Phil Murphy signed a law that allowed those within a year of release to get out up to eight months early. “No other state has been able to accomplish what New Jersey has accomplished,” said Amol Sinha, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, “making it the nation's leading de-carcerator and I think that's a badge that we should wear with honor.”
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The saving in resources in what is already an overworked system by not performing endoscopies is also considerable.As the coronavirus swept through New Jersey’s prison system last year, killing inmates at the highest rate in the nation for months, state leaders took an unprecedented step: They slashed the prison population by 40%. Patients who are often frail and who have multiple medical problems are saved an often-long journey to the endoscopy unit as well as the hazards of an endoscopy. We believe that we have provided further evidence that percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes can be removed safely using the cut and push method. Only two possible complications have been recorded (2.7%). Seven tubes have been removed endoscopically and 73 tubes have been removed with the cut and push method. We reviewed all the files of the percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes removed in our unit over the last 4 years.ĭuring the period of July 1995 to July 1999, we have inserted 384 percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes. The cut and push method also represents a considerable resource saving compared to the endoscopic method that we think warrants further discussion.
#The cut skin
This involves cutting the catheter at skin level and allowing the tube and internal bumper to spontaneously pass. Depending on the type of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube used we often used the 'cut and push' method. This has implications for endoscopy time and resources, and we believe is not always necessary. The standard method of removing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes is by gastroscopy.