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"Releasing elderly non-violent prisoners would reduce Ohio deficit"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this potent and effective letter to the editor in a local Ohio paper. Here are excerpts: How do you eat an elephant? . . . One bite at a time Ohio is $8 billion in the red.  A budget crisis the size of an elephant.  A recent report by the Kasich camp suggesting ways to balance the budget, asked Ohio agencies to look at operating at a 90 percent of their current budgets.  As expected, all said such a plan would reduce services, raise education costs and create havoc.  The scenario communicated by the Department of Corrections is particularly startling.  If the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction takes a 10 percent hit to their current $3.1 Billion budget, staff would be reduced by 20 percent and several prisons would have to close...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).