- Date
- February 12, 2002
Cutting Correctly looks at the ballooning state expenditures and shrinking revenues that states face and call into question their prison spending. The authors take a detailed look at five policy areas, each designed to save U.S. states money in these times of fiscal belt-tightening:
- Returning discretion to judges and reducing nonviolent prioner populations.
- Drug policy reform.
- Comprehensive sentencing reform.
- Parole reform.
- Policy reforms under consideration around the country.
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