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Blueprint for Cost-Effective Pretrial Detention, Sentencing, and Corrections Systems

Blueprint for Cost-Effective Pretrial Detention, Sentencing, and Corrections Systems

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American Bar Association. Criminal Justice Section (Washington, DC)

Published 2002. 15 pages.

"[M]inimum steps to eliminate unnecessary correctional expenditures, enhance cost-effectiveness, and promote justice" are presented in response to expanding budget constraints. Sections of this document include: fiscal accountability; sentencing and community corrections; sentence modifications; reentry and the reduction of recidivism; pretrial detention; correctional operations and facilities; commentary; report; and general information form. Accession Number: 018010

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