A little over a year ago, the commissioner in charge of city jails, Louis Molina, told local lawmakers that his staff believed the incarcerated population would spike to 7,000 this year.  That was somewhat surprising to criminal justice watchers after nearly two decades of a steady decline driven in part by reforms like the added […]

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