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Read News: Budget Woes Prompt States to Rethink Prison Policy

By The Sentencing Project

 “Their budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision. Collectively, the pending and proposed initiatives could add up to one of biggest shifts ever in corrections policy, putting into place cost-saving reforms that have struggled to win political support in the tough-on-crime climate of recent decades. ‘Prior to this fiscal crisis, legislators could tinker around the edges — but we're now well past the tinkering stage,’ said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, which advocates alternatives to incarceration. ‘Many political leaders who weren't comfortable enough, politically, to do it before can now — under the guise of fiscal responsibility — implement programs and policies that would be win/win situations, saving money and improving corrections...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).