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Another report from the USSC alternatives symposium

By Douglas A. Berman

While awaiting official reports or materials from the US Sentencing Commission about its recent symposium on alternatives to incarceration, I am able to reprint a report on some particulars from the event that I received via e-mail:At a Sentencing Commission symposium in Washington on Tuesday, BOP Director Harley Lappin stated there would be no wholesale move to increase halfway house time to more than six months despite the new statutory authority allowing them to do so.  His reasoning was that "studies" show that for most inmates more than six months in a halfway house is counterproductive. He also stated that it was cheaper to house inmates in minimum and low-security prisons than it is in halfway houses.... Nevertheless, Lappin said that inmates would be considered for halfway house placement of more than six months on a "case-by-case basis...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).