There will be fewer federal prosecutors and FBI agents available to
bring charges and investigate federal crimes, and less money to support
drug treatment programs, unless the U.S. curbs federal prison spending,
the Justice Department told the U.S. Sentencing Commission on Thursday.
For at least the past decade, expanding prison and detention spending has been “crowding out” other criminal justice priorities, wrote DOJ Office of Policy and Legislation Director Jonathan J. Wroblewski in the department's annual letter to the commission. With federal budget cuts placing further constraints on spending, he wrote, the government faces a stark choice: "control federal prison spending or see significant reductions in the resources available for all non-prison criminal justice areas.”
Read more at : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/federal-sentencing-reform_n_3581546.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
For at least the past decade, expanding prison and detention spending has been “crowding out” other criminal justice priorities, wrote DOJ Office of Policy and Legislation Director Jonathan J. Wroblewski in the department's annual letter to the commission. With federal budget cuts placing further constraints on spending, he wrote, the government faces a stark choice: "control federal prison spending or see significant reductions in the resources available for all non-prison criminal justice areas.”
Read more at : http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/11/federal-sentencing-reform_n_3581546.html?utm_hp_ref=politics
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