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CO: Independent Ideas: Prison spending still shackles state budget Until sentencing laws change, not much can be done

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Independent Ideas: Prison spending still shackles state budget Until sentencing laws change, not much can be done By By Mike Krause, For the Colorado Daily Sunday, June 21, 2009 On June 3, Gov. Bill Ritter signed Senate Bill 228, repealing the statutory spending limitation (the Bird-Arveschoug Act) that held the annual increase in general fund spending in Colorado to 6 percent. But before anyone gets all teary-eyed -- whether from joy or sorrow -- because the majority Democrats in the Legislature finally will have the budgetary flexibility to spend as they see fit, take a breath. Recent history shows that prison spending in Colorado, and the sentencing polices that drive that spending, has been constraining state spending for decades, and will continue to do so into the near future...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).