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Justice Reinvestment in Wisconsin: Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections and Increase Public Safety
Justice Reinvestment in Wisconsin: Analyses & Policy Options to Reduce Spending on Corrections and Increase Public Safety
Publication year:
2009
| Cataloged on:
May. 28, 2009
ANNOTATION: A data-driven policy framework is presented that proposes to reduce correctional spending while increasing public safety through reinvestment strategies. This report contains the following sections: background; analyses for crime trends and the prison population, drivers of prison population growth, truth in sentencing in Wisconsin, community supervision, and effective assessment and evaluation; "Policy Framework to Reduce Spending on Corrections & Increase Public Safety"; combined impact of the policy options; and averted costs and reinvestment analysis.
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