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Senator Clinton making a campaign offensive on crime

By Douglas A. Berman

A helpful reader pointed me to this exciting news from the presidential campaign trail:Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing to spend $4 billion a year on anti-crime measures, including programs meant to reduce the number of ex-convicts who return to prison.  The money also would help communities hire more police officers and "community-oriented prosecutors." Under the New York senator's plan, to be detailed Friday in a speech in Philadelphia, states would compete for $1 billion in annual grants to combat recidivism. It would "promote tough but fair" changes to probation practices and to existing programs meant to steer non-violent drug offenders away from prison, her presidential campaign said in an outline provided early Friday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 11, 2008 (boomark / email).