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Delaware editorial (strangely?) assails providing sentencing judges with punishment cost data

By Douglas A. Berman

Following up the recent stories on Missouri's new sentencing innovations (background here and here), The News Journal (of Delaware) has this notable new editorial headlined "Judicial trends no place to solve fiscal dilemmas."  Here are excerpts: An advisory committee established by Missouri state lawmakers has voted to begin telling judges the costs of criminal sentences on the state budgets. For example, a judge might now learn that a second-degree robbery incarceration could be less than $9,000 for five years of intensive probation, but more than $50,000 for prison sentence and parole, The New York Times reports.... But there are more credible efforts to reduce the cost of imprisonment without factoring in capital budgets as pre-sentencing evidence...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 21, 2010 (boomark / email).