Decarcerate Sacramento

Our Mission
Decarcerate Sacramento is a community organization working to preventing jail expansions, decreasing jail populations, and shifting county funds away from policing and incarceration towards community-based systems of care that promote community safety and health.
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About Sacramento County's Jail System

82%
The percentage of people in Sacramento County Jail who have not been convicted of any crime.
39%
The population of Black folks in the jail population (the total Black population in Sacramento County is 11%).
Over 60%
The number of people in Sacramento County Jail who have been diagnosed with mental illness.
Over 50%
The number of people charged with misdemeanors in Sacramento experiencing homelessness.
Current Projects

Preventing Jail Expansion

Inside/Outside Organizing

Jail Population Reduction
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