Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

VA: Editorial: A sensible call for sentencing reform

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The cost to build and operate the prisons needed to hold all of these people is enormous: States spent about $2 billion on construction alone in 2006." Editorial: A sensible call for sentencing reform Virginia's junior senator insists on taking an honest look at the high cost of the war on drugs. Sen. Jim Webb will be moderating a symposium Wednesday on illegal drug trafficking and the nation's hugely expensive fight against it. The symposium at George Mason University could not be more timely for Virginians and their policymakers, who last week heard Gov. Tim Kaine's latest -- but by no means last -- budget cuts to match steep shortfalls in state revenues. Webb's interest, of course, is at the federal rather than state level, but the concerns he has been raising -- during two earlier Senate hearings and now at the upcoming symposium -- apply equally in both spheres...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 18, 2008 (boomark / email).