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Prison Overcrowding: Crisis and Response -- Hearing Before the New Jersey Assembly Law, Public Safety, Defense and Corrections Committee, April 23, 1987

NCJ Number
109471
Date Published
1987
Length
46 pages
Annotation
This hearing before a New Jersey legislative committee considered the problem of overcrowding in the State's prisons and the Assembly Bill 3209 Aca, which proposes a $150 million bond issue for the construction, improvement, and rehabilitation of State correctional facilities.
Abstract
Speakers included the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, a member of the Driving While Intoxicated Task Force of Sussex County and Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and a representative of the New Jersey Association on Correction. Speakers noted that the State legislature's policy is that a prison cell should exist for every violent criminal and that prison admissions are exceeding paroles by 130 every month. Other topics discussed included privatization, the method for allocating the proposed funds, the problem of alcohol and drug abuse among offenders, the drunk driving issue, and alternatives to incarceration. Appendix including text of proposed law and written testimony.