Ohio’s Sentencing Policies and Practices, Costs and Consequences
February 18, 2011
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Resource List
Reports
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), In for a Penny: The Rise of America’s New Debtors’ Prisons (Oct. 2010), available at https://www.laaclu.org/PDF_documents/InForAPenny_web.pdf.
ACLU, Reform Cannot Wait: A Comprehensive Examination of the Cost of Incarceration in Ohio from 1991-2000, available at http://www.acluohio.org/issues/criminaljustice/ReformCannotWait2010_08.pdf.
Justice Center, Council of State Governments, Justice Reinvestment in Ohio–Policy Framework to Reduce Corrections Spending & Reinvest Savings in Strategies that Can Reduce Crime (Feb. 2011), available at http://www.justicereinvestment.org/states/ohio/pubmaps-oh.
Marc A. Levin, Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions,Smart on Crime (Nov. 2010), available at http://www.opd.ohio.gov/RC_Reports/BuckeyeInstituteSmartOnCrimeReport.pdf.
PEW Center on the States, Right-Sizing Prisons: Business Leaders Make the Case for Corrections Reform (Jan. 2010), available at http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/uploadedFiles/Business%20Leaders_QA_Brief_web.pdf.
Ohio Dep’t of Rehabilitation and Correction, Departmental Reports (offering a selection of statistial reports), available at http://www.drc.ohio.gov/web/Reports/reports.htm.
Electronic Resources
National:
Marc A. Levin, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Rewarding Results: Measuring and Incentivizing Performance in Corrections (Aug. 2010), available at http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2010-08-RR08-RewardingResults-CEJ-ml.pdf.
Smart on Crime Coalition, Smart on Crime: Recommendations for the Administration and Congress (2011), available at http://www.besmartoncrime.org/pdf/Complete.pdf.
Michael Doyle, Supreme Court to Hear Prison Overcrowding Case, McClatchy Newspapers, Nov. 29, 2010, available at http://media.mcclatchydc.com/smedia/2010/11/29/17
/20101129_PRISONS_capacity.large.prod_affiliate.91.jpg (“U.S. Prisons Are Full” graphic).
Newt Gingrich & Pat Nolan, Prison Reform: A Smart Way for States to Save Money and Lives, Wash. Post, Jan. 7, 2011, available at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010604386_pf.html.
Kara Gotsch, Bipartisan Justice: Fixing America’s Punitive Penal System Has Politicians Crossing Party Lines, American Prospect, Dec. 6, 2010, available at http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=bipartisan_justice, in Special Report: Mass Incarceration in America, American Prospect (Jan./Feb. 2010), available at http://www.prospect.org/cs/archive/view_report?reportId=106.
Carrie Johnson, Budget Crunch Forces a New Approach to Prisons, NPR.org, Feb. 15, 2011, available at http://www.npr.org/2011/02/15/133760412/budget-crunch-forces-a-new-approach-to-prisons.
Tina Rosenberg, For Ex-Prisoners, a Haven Away from the Streets, N.Y. Times Opinionator, Jan. 17, 2011 available at http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/for-ex-prisoners-a-haven-away-from-the-streets/?ref=opinion.
Articles: Ohio
Alan Johnson, Treatment, Not Prison, Now Is Looking Good, Columbus Dispatch, Feb. 3, 2011, available at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/02/03/copy/treatment-not-prison-now-is-looking-good.html.
Andrew Welch-Huggins, Report: Change Probation, Save $62M, Cincinnati.com, Feb. 2, 2011, available at http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110202/NEWS0108/302020055/Report-Change-probation-save-62M.
Alan Johnson, Prison Reform Awaits Kasich: Changing Overcrowded System Won’t Be Easy, Columbus Dispatch, Dec. 12, 2010, at A1, available at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/12/copy/prison-reform-awaits-kasich.html.
Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ohio Must Spend Less on Prisons and Focus on More Effective Outcomes, in Redesigning Ohio: Transforming Government into a 21st Century Institution 40-42 (Dec. 2010), available at http://www.ohiochamber.com/dococc/Policypolitics/-pdf/RedesigningOhioFINAL12-2010.pdf.
Other State Perspectives:
New York Division of Criminal Justice Services, Preliminary Impact of 2009 Drug Law Reform October 2009-September 2010 (Oct. 2010), available at http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/drug-law-reform/documents/interim-drug-law-reform-update-10-07-2010.pdf (electronic only).
Editorial, Indiana’s Answer to Prison Costs, N.Y. Times, Jan. 18, 2011, at A24, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/18/opinion/18tue2.html?_r=2&ref=opinion (citing Jack Wagner, Pennsylvania Auditor General, Special Report: Fiscal and Structural Reform—Solutions to Pennsylvania’s Growing Inmate Population (Jan. 2011), available at http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us/Reports/Performance/Special/speCorrections012611.pdf).
Editorial, A Good Place to Start Cutting, N.Y. Times, Jan. 6, 2011, available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/opinion/07fri3.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Press Release, New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services, Crime Down Dramatically in New York State; Study of 10 Year Trend Shows Double-Digit Drop in Crime (May 4, 2010), available at http://criminaljustice.state.ny.us/pio/press_releases/2010-5-4_pressrelease.html.
Press Release, Pennsylvania Department of the Auditor General, Auditor General Jack Wagner Says Pa. Needs Sentencing Reform, Construction Freeze to Shrink Corrections Costs (Jan. 27, 2011), available at http://www.auditorgen.state.pa.us/department/press/
wagnerpaneedssentcngrefrmconstrctfrzeshrinkcorrect.html.