Reform Criminal Justice Policies, Cut Government Costs
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Jan. 13, 2009
ANNOTATION: Potential cost savings are provided for various reformed correctional practices in New York State. The context and recommendation/potential savings for the following are given: closing under utilized prisons; repealing the Rockefeller Drug Laws; reforming parole -- increasing diversion for technical parole violators and restoring fair and rational standards to parole release decision-making; increasing work release eligibility and population; additional cost savings measures -- expanding merit time eligibility for survivors of domestic violence and expanding merit time eligibility to all incarcerated people; and community reinvestment.