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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's budget tightens early prison release

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's budget tightens early prison release Doyle program has affected 479 inmates for 'limited' savings Mar. 5, 2011 | Written by Paul Srubas http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20110305/GPG0101/103050637/Wisconsin-Gov-Scott-Walker-s-budget-tightens-early-prison-release Gov. Scott Walker's plan to rescind former Gov. Jim Doyle's cost-saving sentencing reform measures will have little positive effect on the state budget or even on Walker's wish to restore truth in sentencing, data from the state Department of Corrections shows. Walker has proposed changing the funding for the prison system, taking it from a $1.3 billion budget for this year to $1.2 billion in 2012 and then back up to $1.27 billion in 2013...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 06, 2011 (boomark / email).