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"Do the crime, pay more than time"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this article appearing today on the front-page of my own Columbus Dispatch.  Here is how the piece begins: When it comes to budget sacrifices, it appears no one is exempt in Ohio -- not even prisoners, who will have to pay $1 a month for electricity in their cells.  Also behind bars, flavored drinks are out, saving $1 million, and meals will have less variety, saving $3 million over two years. Those changes are part of $30 million in cost savings set in motion by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction as part of the state's budget belt-tightening. Among other changes: closing two prison farms, eliminating the $75 "gate pay" for certain inmates upon release and contracting for some medical services...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 18, 2011 (boomark / email).