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Prosecutors defend who gets sent to Arizona's prisons

By Douglas A. Berman

This interesting local article, which is headlined "Most state inmates committed violent crimes: Officials say state gets money worth for $1B corrections budget," reports on an notable effort by Arizona state prosecutors to defend their state's high prison population.  Here are excerpts: A new study of the Arizona prison population reports that nearly all inmates have had prior convictions or committed violent felonies. The Arizona Prosecuting Attorney's Advisory Council commissioned the study, titled "Prisoners in Arizona: A Profile of the Inmate Population." "Who is it who's locked up?" Pima County Attorney Barbara LaWall asked at a March 30 news conference. "It's just who you'd expect." Citing the 91-page analysis, LaWall said at least 94 percent of state inmates are repeat or violent offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 14, 2010 (boomark / email).