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NY Plans to Release More Prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NY plans to release more inmates from prisons By Michael Virtanen Associated Press Writer Newsday February 19, 2009 ALBANY, N.Y. The Paterson administration has proposed further emptying New York's prisons by releasing more inmates six months early for good behavior, putting middle-aged convicts into shock camps and punishing technical parole violations with something short of prison. Corrections chief Brian Fischer said the measures, recommended earlier this year by a special commission that included lawmakers, are based on past successes and would help the criminal justice system operate more rationally. They require the Legislature's approval. The three measures would remove an estimated 1,600 more inmates from prisons in a year. The population _ which stood at 59,918 on Thursday at 69 facilities _ is down about 11,500 since its 1999 peak...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).