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SC: Patience thins as prison numbers stay high in state despite revamped criminal laws

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Patience thins as prison numbers stay high in state By Yvonne Wenger - The (Charleston) Post and Courier Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011 COLUMBIA -- Legislators revamped South Carolina's criminal laws last year, but the state is still waiting for judges to respond and the number of prisoners to drop. Eight months have passed since the sentencing reform plan was put into law as a way to free up space in prisons by putting more nonviolent offenders into community-based treatment and supervision programs. The reviews so far have been mixed. College professors would have to spend more time in classrooms and illegal immigrants would spend less time in prison before being deported under temporary law changes a House budget panel approved Tuesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).