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Prison population, corrections budget spike during truth in sentencing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"If a crime policy is gauged by its ability to lower crime rates and rehabilitate inmates to prevent return trips to prison, then truth in sentencing has failed." Prison population, corrections budget spike during truth in sentencing Jessica VanEgeren April 21, 2009 Capital Times- Madison, WI When the tough-on-crime mantra was all the rage in the 1990s, Wisconsin, like the rest of the nation, got caught up in the movement. Michael Lew got caught up in it, too. As one of eight assistant chiefs of probation and parole for the state Department of Corrections, Lew was tapped to research the financial impact of a new sentencing policy being debated at the Capitol. Known as truth in sentencing, the policy -- which had the blessing of then-Attorney General Jim Doyle -- took effect Dec...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 23, 2009 (boomark / email).