Daily Headlines PLAN TO CUT SENTENCES FOR NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS COULD SAVE TAXPAYERS MILLIONS (Source:Greenville News)

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State taxpayers spend millions each year to lock up prisoners for probation violations, driving under suspension and other nonviolent offenses -- and the costs are expected to swell by hundreds of millions if nothing is done.



Prison admissions have grown 26 percent in a decade with a large chunk coming not from murderers, rapists and other violent criminals but lower-level offenders.



Forty-nine percent of the state's inmates are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses, mostly drug and property crimes. Forty-four percent of new inmates have sentences of less than 18 months.



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Pubdate: Mon, 22 Feb 2010

Source: Greenville News (SC)

Copyright: 2010 The Greenville News

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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/877

Author: Paul Alongi, Staff writer