Since 2005, $55 million in state probation funding has been incentive-based. Departments are eligible if they adopt progressive sanctions and pledge to reduce their technical revocations. Progressive sanctions involve utilizing graduated measures such as increased reporting, community service, curfews, electronic monitoring, mandatory treatment, and shock-nights in jail prior to revoking a probationer to prison for technical violations.
A Right Way and a Wrong Way Forward on Housing Affordability
On Tuesday, former President Barack Obama gave an address to the Democrat National Convention (DNC) which, in part, broached the issue of housing affordability. On the matter, he said: “If we want to make it easier for more young people to buy a home, we need to build more units and clear away some of...