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Missouri senator proposes bill to lengthen prison stays

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Missouri senator proposes bill to lengthen prison stays Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Missourian BY Michael Bushnell JEFFERSON CITY ? Before he even was sworn in as a state senator for his first term, Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia, filed a bill to require criminals to serve prison terms closer to their actual sentences than is current practice. Currently, the average convicted felon serves less than one half of the actual sentence before release, according to the Missouri Corrections Department. But Sen. Schaefer proposes requiring a minimum of 85 percent of a sentence be served before release. He acknowledged he has found it difficult to promote a bill perceived as increasing prison populations and the costs associated with them, while the state grapples with a more than $250 million budget shortfall...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).