This project is designed to help states tap the best research and information available to put a fiscal lens to sentencing and corrections policy options and reforms.
As we look towards transforming the Virginia justice system we know from our trips to Richmond that legislators are concerned with the bottom line. This report puts a fiscal lens to sentencing, something VA should do in regards to the “no parole” and other wasteful state policies.
This report is prepared under a partnership project of NCSL’s Criminal Justice Program in Denver, Colorado and the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States, based in Washington, D.C.