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Details of the prison economy problems from the Granite State

By Douglas A. Berman

Local papers this Sunday are filled with local prison economy stories.  In addition to these pieces from West Virginia, today also brings from the Concord Monitor this article, headlined "In crisis, changes for prisons: Budget challenge may reshape corrections."  Here is a snippet, which includes details of the state's interesting back-end sentencing mechanism and cost calculations: The state's corrections budget is one of the biggest and one of the hardest to cut because Commissioner William Wrenn can't simply close his prisons and send inmates home.  But many think this economic crisis might be the state's best chance to find cheaper, better ways to do its prison business. "There is nothing like lean times to make you smart," said former speaker of the New Hampshire House Donna Sytek, who saw lawmakers through a similarly severe downturn in the 1990s...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 25, 2009 (boomark / email).