Grant Money Targets St. Louis County Criminal Law Reforms
On behalf of Rosenblum Schwartz & Fry posted in Drug Crimes on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The Macarthur Foundation has noted the willingness of St. Louis County officials to implement criminal law reforms aimed at reducing prison costs and providing behind-bars alternatives to more offenders. That deep-pocketed private organization spearheaded a program called Safety and Justice Challenge back in 2015. Since then, it has awarded select cities and counties nationally with approximately $150 million to “change the way America thinks about and uses jails.” St. Louis County was an original grant recipient of the initiative. The efforts made by the county since the program’s …