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Can New York Break Its Incarceration Habit?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Despite these signs of success, New York is subject to the same difficult policy and practical challenges faced all over the country. "Parole is hard," said Horn. "It really gets deep into social and psychological factors [of parolees], and operates in a world where there are so many factors outside of its control." For now, one of those factors seems to be New York State's commitment to spending hundreds of millions of dollars on prisons -- even without the prisoners to fill them. Gotham Gazette Can New York Break Its Incarceration Habit? by Aubrey Fox 02 Jun 2008 It?s an experiment that has arguably run its course. In the last 20 years, states across the country have quadrupled their spending on jails and prisons from $11 billion in 1987 to $44 billion last year, while imprisoning 2...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 02, 2008 (boomark / email).