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consideration.
The following were among the recommendations:
• “Funding for community-based programs should be targeted to those porgrams which have a proven record of success in reducing inmate populations in local and state facilities.
• “Any decisions which would result in the construction of new correctional bedspace, either at the state or local level, should be made only after there has been a thorough analysis of costs, both capital and future maintenance and operation.”
• “For non-violent detainees, who cannot make bond, the committee encourages the use of release on recognizance with the support of pretrial programs.”
• “The Commonwealth must provide financial incentives to th^ localities for the development of diversion programs.”
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