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"The Crunch in Federal Prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this effective new article from The Crime Report.  The piece carries this sub-head: "More prisoners are doing federal time than ever, but Congress isn?t allocating enough funds to pay for them. Prison officials and reformers say a rethink of the system is long overdue."  And here is how the piece gets started: While cash-strapped states are responding to the nation?s economic crisis by looking for ways to reduce their prison populations, the federal prison system is heading in the opposite direction. Last year, the 115 federal prisons added 7,000 inmates to their rolls, making a total of 211,000 inmates in federal facilities ? and the figure is expected to grow.  The number of federal criminal cases filed annually has increased from 69,575 in fiscal year 2005 to 76,655 in FY 2009...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 03, 2010 (boomark / email).