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"Gov. Beshear signs bill aimed at lowering Kentucky prison population"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this local article from Kentucky, which starts this way: In a bipartisan flourish, Gov. Steve Beshear on Thursday signed into law a measure aimed at reversing the fast-rise in Kentucky?s prison population by steering more nonviolent drug offenders into treatment as a less costly alternative to being locked up. Beshear hailed the bill?s overarching goal of reducing prison costs, which consume heaping amounts of state tax dollars that he said could be put into education, children?s health care and job creation.  ?It enables the state to continue to be tough on crime but at the same time to be smarter about it,? the Democratic governor said at a bill-signing ceremony that drew leaders from all three branches of government...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 03, 2011 (boomark / email).