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Time for Truth in Sentencing Budgets from LBB

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I find it fascinating that other states, notably Missouri, are beginning to tell judges the cost to taxpayers of sentences they impose, as described in this blog post from Lauren Brooke Eisen at the Vera Institute.By contrast, in Texas legislators don't even get honest assessments of the costs of criminal penalties before passing them into law. Our Legislative Budget Board considers nearly all new crimes and criminal penalty "enhancements" to have an "insignificant" cost, no matter how many additional people will be incarcerated, while in Missouri they're actually calculating the cost of each individual prisoner sentenced and giving the judge (and everybody else) that information up front: "The Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission (MOSAC) now tells judges the cost to the state for their sentencing decisions...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 23, 2011 (boomark / email).

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