Sentences with phrase «prison beds»

Skelos said his plan, to be presented to Cuomo on Wednesday, would reduce the number of prison beds by a little over 3,500 and involve closing five or six facilities, including one in New York City.

The plan also cuts $ 100 million from the Metropolitan Transit Authority's operating budget, and calls for a 30 percent reduction in juvenile justice capacity and 3,500 fewer state prison beds.

Indeed, proficiency by third grade is so critical that at least four states are known to use third - grade test scores to predict how many prison beds they'll need years later, reports the National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice.

«I take great pride in the fact that we take up prison beds as opposed to hospital beds.»

- $ 13 million in savings from leasing prison beds to the feds for their criminals, including illegal immigrants.

Mr. Cuomo is planning a consolidation of the state's sprawling correctional system, with plans to cut more than 3,000 of the roughly 64,000 adult prison beds, the largest proposed single reduction in over a decade.

Work that featured in Inside: Artists and Writers in Reading Prison includes Vija Celmins» Night Sky, Steve McQueen's Weight sculpture with prison bed, Roni Horn's gold sculpture Double Mobius and Wolfgang Tillmans» Separate System self - portrait photograph.

We argue that it's better to invest that $ 230,000 in the community, into services that help before someone commits a crime, rather than adding new prison beds or building new prisons.

Imprisonment is expensive: per year, prison beds cost some $ 100,000 for adults and some $ 200,000 in youth justice.

Landrieu and school leaders ultimately can reduce the number of prison beds and people in them by replacing jails with great schools.

The proposed budget also includes cutting 3,700 state prison beds — a cornerstone of the governor's plan — but facilities have not yet been chosen.

The New York State Department of Community and Correctional Supervision has claimed that as crime rates decline and inmate populations decrease, taxpayers can not afford to continue paying for empty prison beds.

Nationwide this price has meant a $ 5 billion construction bill for the 800 local, state and federal institutions that in January 1977 were planning to add 200,000 prison beds.

Maybe if it were legallized Hailey Barbour wouldnt have had to pardon murderers because the pot heads arent taking up all the prison beds.

The agreement includes closure of 3,700 prison beds — up from 3,500 initially proposed — that will NOT be accomplished through a task force, but determined by the administration in consultation with the Legislature.

According to those briefed on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan, it will include cutting 3,000 prison beds, a reduction in scheduled Medicaid increases, and more deep slashing of state operations, which will lead to the loss of thousands of state jobs.

2012 Cuomo took his time in 2012 to relish in his major early victories, which included marriage equality, ethics reform, closing the $ 10 billion deficit, establishing regional economic development councils, renewing rent laws, and eliminating nearly 4,000 prison beds.

When we spend money on education instead of prison beds the whole community prospers.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will seek to cut more than 3,000 prison beds, roll back scheduled spending increases on Medicaid and education by billions of dollars and make steep reductions to state operations, a move likely to lead to the loss of thousands of state jobs, according to people briefed on the budget he will unveil on Tuesday.

The new budget will also eliminate 3,700 prison beds, create 10 regional economic development councils chaired by Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, and will reallocate $ 270 million to education in addition to performance grants.

Also in the plan, 3,700 prison beds would be eliminated; $ 22 million would be restored to proposed cuts for prescriptions for the elderly; and New York City senior centers will be funded.

While this will help free up prison beds and reduce the workload for many courts, it won't make Florida's roadways any safer.

That a percentage of funding that is targeted to prison beds be diverted to trial communities where there are high rates of Indigenous offenders.