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More on Missouri Criminal Justice Costs

By Steve Hall

"Missouri Tells Judges Cost of Sentences," is the title of a New York Times report written by Monica Davey.  It's a followup to a story she wrote last week. When judges here sentence convicted criminals, a new and unusual variable is available for them to consider: what a given punishment will cost the State of Missouri. For someone convicted of endangering the welfare of a child, for instance, a judge might now learn that a three-year prison sentence would run more than $37,000 while probation would cost $6,770. A second-degree robber, a judge could be told, would carry a price tag of less than $9,000 for five years of intensive probation, but more than $50,000 for a comparable prison sentence and parole afterward...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on September 20, 2010 (boomark / email).