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OH: Bill would free more deadbeat parents. Kids, state would all be winners, legislator says.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bill would free more deadbeat parents. Kids, state would all be winners, legislator says Friday, August 22, 2008 3:10 AM By Jim Siegel THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Hoping to see more deadbeat parents placed in community-corrections programs instead of costly, crowded prisons, a state legislator from Franklin County proposed yesterday expanding a pilot sentencing program. The bill would take a program that started in 2007 in Franklin, Delaware and five other counties and spread it statewide. State prison officials estimate that keeping those who fail to pay child support out of their penitentiaries would save an estimated $13,000 a year per offender and increase support payments by 71 percent. "The state can save money on the cost of keeping them in prison, and (offenders) can earn money to pay back the child support," said Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 24, 2008 (boomark / email).