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"A Good Place to Start Cutting"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this editorial in today's New York Times, which gets started this way: Gov. Andrew Cuomo struck just the right tone on both adult prison reform and juvenile justice reform in his first State of the State address on Wednesday.  He said that New York could no longer afford to keep hugely expensive but unneeded facilities open to serve as ?an employment program? for upstate residents. To get the Legislature to agree to shut these facilities, Mr. Cuomo will have to push back hard against the corrections workers? unions that have thwarted sound closure proposals from all three of his predecessors. The case for closures is laid out in a new analysis by the Correctional Association of New York, a nonprofit group...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 07, 2011 (boomark / email).