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eNewsletter - December 3, 2009
Criminal Justice Reinvestment Act of 2009
Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), John Cornyn (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), along with Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Dan Lungren (R-CA), have introduced bills in the US Senate (S. 2772) and US House of Representatives (H.R. 4080) to assist states, local governments and tribes with slowing their jail and prison population growth and reducing corrections expenditures.
Over two million adults in the United States are incarcerated in prisons and jails, and states have increased spending on corrections by $40 billion in the past 20 years. The Criminal Justice Reinvestment Act of 2009 would provide grants to state and local governments to help them analyze trends in criminal justice and prison population growth, develop and implement policies to reduce corrections expenditures and enhance the effectiveness of current spending, and measure the impact of these changes.