Criminal
Mar. 3, 2011
The Recession’s Effect on Federal Prison Sentences
Are the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed cost-cutting measures too good to be true? By A. Jeff Ifrah and Jeff Hamlin of Ifrah Law.
Prison inmates in the United States may have reason to thank Wall Street for the 2008 recession. The bloated federal deficit is forcing agencies to tighten their budgets, including the U.S. Department of Justice. According to its budget for 2012, the Department of Justice proposes to offset budget increases with cost-cutting measures that include a revision to the way good-time credits are calculated for federal prison inmates.
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