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NEW YORK Their budgets in crisis, governors, legislators and prison officials across the nation are making or considering policy changes that will likely remove tens of thousands of offenders from prisons and parole supervision.
Collectively, the pending and proposed initiatives could add up to one of biggest shifts ever in corrections policy, putting into place cost-saving reforms that have struggled to win political support in the tough-on-crime climate of recent decades.
"Prior to this fiscal crisis, legislators could tinker around the edges but we're now well past the tinkering stage," said Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, which advocates alternatives to incarceration
The lad who got the headjob from his girlfriend in Georgia, is he still in the slammer? They could let him out without a danger to the public. And how many people are inside for simple possession of marijuana possibly on some three strikes bullshit? They could be let go without danger. I'm sure there are plenty more. It doesn't take much wit to work out some people should never have gone to prison in the first place.
obviously you didn't read the article. Kerry on!
