Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sentencing Law and Policy

Criminal Law

: Sentencing Law and Policy

"Prison-reform bills would save money, improve public safety"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the subheading of this notable editorial from my own (unsually conservative) Columbus Dispatch.  Here are excerpts: [Proposed legislative] reform promises to save the state $29 million a year, alleviate some of the dangerous crowding in state prisons and forestall the day that Ohio must spend billions to build more prisons. Other states have implemented variations on Ohio's legislation with good results. This bill doesn't alter how judges and prisons handle truly dangerous people. Ohio, unlike the federal government, is forced to balance its budget. So every dollar that goes into housing, feeding and providing health care to prison inmates -- about $1.8 billion annually -- is a dollar that's not available for education, infrastructure and the needy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).