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| Sentencing At Ohio Prisons Studied |
| By toledoblade.com |
| Published: 07/28/2010 |
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COLUMBUS - A report released Monday reinforced what Ohio already knew: that it's spending millions to imprison nonviolent inmates who won't be there long enough to benefit from treatment and other rehabilitation programs. But Sen. Bill Seitz (R., Cincinnati) said he hopes the independent study by the Justice Center for the Council of State Governments will be enough to jump-start a bill that has been jailed in the Republican-controlled Senate longer than many of the inmates it points to will be in state prison. "For too many lower-level offenders, to be remanded to state prison for a very brief stay is simply a short course in crime university, because they are then exposed to higher-level offenders," he said. Read More. |
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