Family Life

12.13.12 | Sarah Harnisch

Pennsylvania’s dramatic 30-year, 525 percent rise in prison population appears to have ended, or at least hit an historic lull. After a year-end high of 51,487 inmates in 2009, the state’s prison population has remained relatively stable for the past three years. That’s a good sign that the justice reinvestment prison reforms enacted this year will have a chance to reduce the population further, saving the state millions of dollars.