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Is the Budget Crisis Changing the Way We Look at Sentencing and Incarceration?
Publication year:
2002
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Responses of Kansas, North Carolina, and Virginia agencies to budget cuts by "creat[ing] systems that automatically incorporate consideration of cost and impact into the policy-making process" are described (p. 2). Topics discussed include: immediate responses -- prison closings, pink slips, and program cuts; reforming sentencing policy -- reducing sentences and repealing mandatories; building fiscal discipline in the long term; can sentencing guidelines reduce prison populations?; legislative tools; and risk assessment at sentencing.