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CA: Audit Faults CDC with Huge Systemic Problems Including the Cost of 3 Strikes

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Aside from the questions of inefficiency and fattened paychecks, the auditor noted that California's "three strikes" sentencing law adds billions to the state's corrections costs. Because that law imposes longer-than-usual sentences on inmates who commit a third felony after two serious or violent prior offenses, the state must house and care for those inmates for years longer than would otherwise be the case. Currently, a quarter of California's 150,000 inmates are serving "three strikes" sentences. The auditor found that if those inmates did not serve the longer-than-usual sentence, the state would save some $19.2 billion in future years." Audit faults California prison system for failing to develop system to track rising costs By Denis C...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 09, 2009 (boomark / email).