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Health & Fitness

Incarceration Alternatives Help "Trash" Crime

Over the last 10 years Running Rebels estimates more than $60 Million in taxpayer money was saved when intervention programs were favored over incarceration.

Administrators from the Milwaukee County Department of Health & Human Services Delinquency & Court Services Division (DCSD) were on hand as the Running Rebels community organization symbolically dumped crime paraphernalia like jail jumpsuits, handcuffs, crime tape and arrest records.

Running Rebels says court-ordered alternative programs offered through DCSD help reduce crime and save tax dollars. Over the last 10 years Running Rebels estimates more than $60 Million in taxpayer money was saved when intervention programs were favored over incarceration.

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