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| Prisons Need Alternative Options |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 01/28/2011 |
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HARRISBURG -- Investing now in electronic monitoring, treatment programs and halfway houses could save hundreds of millions of dollars in the long run, according to Auditor General Jack Wagner. The savings could amount to $350 million over four years, he estimated. "With Pennsylvania facing its greatest budget crisis since the Great Depression, we must look for sustainable savings in every nook and cranny of state government, and that includes the criminal justice system," Mr. Wagner said during a news conference Thursday. The Department of Corrections budget is currently $1.6 billion. Mr. Wagner said that number would be lower if the state placed more nonviolent offenders in alternative sentencing programs, provided more money for intermediate programs, expanded the use of electronic monitoring and prohibited counties from sending inmates to state prisons for sentences of less than one year. He estimated that those measures would cost roughly $50 million to implement. Read More. |
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