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OH: Warren County ahead of state in alternative sentencing

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Warren County ahead of state in alternative sentencing Judges use work release, electronic monitoring as sentencing options By Ed Richter, Staff Writer 9:15 PM Saturday, September 11, 2010 LEBANON ? As Ohio continues to grapple with balancing its biennium budget, which includes a projected $8 billion deficit, the state also is struggling managing its costly prison system. In recent years, the state Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections has encouraged county courts to explore alternative sentencing options to divert non-violent and low-felony offenders from prisons, which cost the state just less than $1.8 billion to operate. For the past two years, the Warren County Common Pleas Court has been developing alternative sentencing by placing some of its felony offenders on a community control program for up to five years, said Scott McVey, common pleas court administrator...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 12, 2010 (boomark / email).