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Georgia not (yet) considering prison reduction to cut costs

By Douglas A. Berman

This effective piece from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is headlined "Georgia prison population, costs on rise," suggests that Georgia may soon have start considering it prison populations as it tries to deal with budget deficits. Here are excerpts: As Georgia lawmakers desperately search for ways to slash spending, they are not debating an option taken by other states: cutting the prison population. Georgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a cost of $1 billion a year.  The job of overseeing 60,000 inmates and 150,000 felons on probation consumes 1 of every 17 state dollars. The state?s prison population has jumped by more than a quarter in the past decade and officials expect the number of state inmates to continue to creep upward...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).