How Arkansas Intends to Save $875 million?

Right On Crime: Over the last few months, as states throughout the U.S. have been in legislative session, Right On Crime has monitored the many encouraging developments for conservative criminal justice reform.  In the coming weeks, this newsletter will highlight several of the most significant developments.  This week, we focus on reforms in Arkansas.

Arkansas

• Action: The omnibus Public Safety Improvement Act passed the Senate unanimously and the House 79-14 in March 2011. The law, produced from recommendations crafted by a bipartisan, inter-branch working group, will concentrate prison space on violent and career offenders and reduce recidivism by steering lower-level offenders into strengthened probation and parole programs.
• Impact: The Act is projected to save Arkansas $875 million in prison construction and operation expenses through 2020. Some of those prison savings will be reinvested in evidence-based community supervision and programs designed to reduce recidivism and hold offenders accountable.

Right On Crime offers the Conservative Case for Reform: Fighting Crime, Restoring Victims and Protecting the Taxpayer.

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