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OH: State could invest in half-way houses rather than more prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ohio bill seeks to ease prison crowding By JULIE CARR SMYTH AP Statehouse Correspondent Thursday Dec 18, 2008 Akron Beacon Journal Non-violent drug offenders could spend more time in halfway houses instead of in prison. Well-behaved inmates who earn their GEDs could get out early. Others could serve the final months of their sentences outside prison while wearing GPS devices. These are just some of the options Gov. Ted Strickland's administration is considering to contend with crowded prisons amid forecasts of plummeting state revenues. "To me, it comes down to a simple formula," said state prisons director Terry Collins. "Either we spend a whole lot more money on building a whole lot more prisons to lock up everybody in Ohio, or we can figure out some other solutions so that all those other programs _ like social services, education, Medicaid _ have the money they need...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 19, 2008 (boomark / email).