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Why tight budget times will speed path to technocorrections

By Douglas A. Berman

I am so sorry that Mike at the CS blog is calling it quits, because a local story from my local statehouse highlights why he is so right in emphasizing that tight state budgets will increase affinity for technocorrections.  This local Ohio statehouse news story (which may require a subscription) is headlined "Senators Told GPS Electronic Monitoring Of Offenders Could Save State $148 Million."  Here are excerpts:Housing inmates in prison costs $69 per day.  Tracking some of them electronically would cost $18 per day and, a Senate panel was told this week, could save the state at least $148 million.  For the third time this session, the Senate Judiciary Criminal Justice Committee was briefed on an electronic monitoring system that tracks travel of individuals who may be subject to restraining orders or on parole...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 03, 2008 (boomark / email).