Criminal Justice Reform: Our Hands Aren’t Tied
- Public Safety Performance Project
- Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- March 16, 2012
Based on historical data, nearly 100 new “lower-risk” inmates may be processed into Georgia’s prison system this week. They’re the petty criminals who are a costly nuisance to society, not raging threats to public safety.
Yet Georgia taxpayers will spend about $18,000 a year to warehouse each of them. Common sense and experts agree this costly practice does nothing to reduce crime. Conservatives and liberals find common ground on this point, and polling by this newspaper and other groups shows solid support for reform .
Georgia can’t afford to keep paying $1 billion a year for such a counterproductive strategy. Not when we can likely get better results for the same, or even less, money.
Read the full article at ajc.com.
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