This panel, held at Community Justice 2016, explores initiatives and strategies to address the overcrowding of jails across the country. Moderated by Kim Ball, senior policy advisor at the Bureau of Justice Assistance, panelists include Mike Lawlor, undersecretary of the Criminal Justice Policy and Planning Division at the Connecticut Office of Policy Management, Laurie Garduque, director of the MacArthur Foundation, and Tshaka Barrows, deputy director of the W. Haywood Burns Institute.