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| States seek alternatives to more prisons |
| By Kansas City Infozine |
| Published: 06/19/2007 |
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Though the construction of prisons continues as states struggle to provide enough beds for those behind bars, legislators increasingly are looking at other ways to free up space and save money, including expanded programs to help prevent offenders from being incarcerated again, earlier release dates for low-risk inmates and sentencing revisions. Criminal justice analysts point to Kansas and Texas as recent innovators. Both states are putting off building new prisons, focusing instead on rehabilitation and recidivism. At the same time, a new $7.7 billion prison spending plan in California - where overcrowding last year forced Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) to declare a state of emergency - has met with skepticism. Critics call the plan "prison expansion, not prison reform" and say the initiative relies on impractical fixes such as shipping inmates out of state. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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