During a lengthy round of Philadelphia City Council budget hearings, City Councilman Bill Green said that the city has seen an increase of costs in the Philadelphia Prison System of more than $2 million even though court leaders, prosecutors and other criminal justice stakeholders have made efforts to divert more defendants away from incarceration in the city.
Even as there may be less savings for the city to reinvest in the criminal justice system, the First Judicial District, Philadelphia’s top prosecutor and the city’s nonprofit public defender all asked for more money.
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