Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Many states considering early release of prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Many states considering early release of prisoners By BRUCE RUSHTON THE STATE JOURNAL-REGISTER Jul 12, 2009 Experts agree: Freeing inmates early doesn?t necessarily increase crime rates, nor does it affect recidivism. It does save money. As a result, as many as half the states in the union, including Illinois, are considering early release in some form, says James Austin, a prison consultant who started his corrections career nearly 40 years ago as a sociologist for the Illinois Department of Corrections. ?The research is completely clear: You can do this without increasing the recidivism rate or the crime rate,? Austin says. ?It?s easy, it really is?it?s unbelievably easy. The politics get in the way of it. People just don?t understand the basic math here...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 19, 2009 (boomark / email).