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In Toledo to talk about Ohio sentencing policies and practices

By Douglas A. Berman

I am pleased and honored to be in Toledo tonight and tomorrow to participate in a terrific symposium sponsored by the University of Toledo Law Review titled "Ohio?s Sentencing Policies and Practices, Costs and Consequences." This webpage provides some backstory: Ohio has more than 50,000 inmates confined in more than thirty penal institutions.  The average cost per inmate year is more than $25,000.  Even in robust economic times asking whether the budgetary impact is bearable would be worthwhile.  In times of economic distress and unprecedented scarcity of fiscal resources, it is imperative to ask whether Ohio?s taxpayers can continue indefinitely to bear the costs and consequences of incarceration of so many inmates ? especially those who have committed non-violent offenses and are demonstrably low-risk...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).