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| Learning from Ga.’s criminal justice overhaul |
| By myajc.com- Jay Neal & Cynthia Roseberry |
| Published: 10/01/2015 |
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Wearing her cap and gown, Sandra Daniel walks back through security at the Lee Arrendale Correctional Facility in Alto on Friday, April 10, 2015. Daniel is one of 43 inmates to graduate with a certificate in theological studies on Friday at the state prison. When it comes to fixing a broken criminal justice system, the federal government can learn a lot from Georgia. That’s why we Georgians are honored to serve on the Charles Colson Federal Corrections Task Force, a blue-ribbon panel set up by Congress to address our nation’s dangerously overcrowded and under-resourced federal prison system. The federal prison population is more than 206,000. That is 8.4 times what it was in 1980, costing taxpayers nearly $7 billion a year. Drug offenders represent the greatest share of inmates. In 2014, drug trafficking offenders made up almost half the federally sentenced population. Their numbers have nearly doubled over 10 years, from fewer than 50,000 in 1994 to more than 95,000 in 2014. Read More. |
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