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Tennessee: State eyes cost-effective alternatives to prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Commissioner George Little: ?We can figure out how to better manage those populations,? he said. ?What I think it opens up is a discussion of who we are locking up, how long they are being locked up and do we have the right people in our prisons and jails.? Tennessee: State eyes cost-effective alternatives to prison Monday, March 9, 2009 By: Lauren Gregory Chattanooga Times Free Press Housing a prisoner costs about $60 a day in Tennessee, so locking someone up for not paying $45 a month in probation fees doesn?t make sense, according to Tennessee?s corrections commissioner. Allowing nonviolent inmates approved for parole to sit behind bars for days or weeks, racking up costs the state could cut in half if they immediately were placed in halfway houses also is counterproductive, Commissioner George Little said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 09, 2009 (boomark / email).