Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

IN: Some counties using risk-assesment to keep people out of prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Some counties try to determine who will break law again By Maureen Hayden CNHI Statehouse Bureau The Herald Bulletin Dec 14, 2010 INDIANAPOLIS ? Gov. Mitch Daniels put sentencing reform on his legislative agenda for the new year, but in many counties throughout the state, change is already under way. Since late summer, judges and probation officers have been undergoing training in the use of a new ?risk assessment? tool that predicts how likely an offender is to fail on probation or parole. The goal: To keep low-risk offenders out of the high-cost state prison system. Indiana Supreme Court Chief Justice Randall Shepard, working with courts throughout the state to implement the training, said it?s part of an overall reform effort to make criminal sentences better match the nature of the offense and the offender...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 16, 2010 (boomark / email).