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State Sentencing Policy and New Prison Admissions
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: State sentencing policies that have led to lower prison admissions are examined. Following an abstract and an introduction are sections about: tremendous growth in U.S. prisons; dissatisfaction with indeterminate sentencing -- moves toward reform; paths to determinacy -- how states' policies changed; effects of determinancy trend; efforts to reduce prison populations and expenses; methodology of case study selection; close examination of three states with drops in new admissions; North Carolina -- computers and fiscal restraint; Florida -- high crime rates, high prison costs, and "tough on crime" politics; Connecticut -- sentencing without guidelines; lessons from the case studies -- best and worse practices; what states can do; and six reasons for reducing prison populations.