An ALEC Policy Initiative
Keeping dangerous criminals off the street is a core government responsibility. Due to tough economic times, cutting budgets is demanded of almost every legislator. Yet corrections is the second fastest growing budget item behind only Medicaid at more than $50 billion a year—and one out of every 100 adults is now behind bars. To help state legislators respond to budget demands, while protecting public safety in their communities, ALEC’s Corrections and Reentry Working Group of the Public Safety and Elections Task Force has approved sound Model Legislation to help cut crime and budgets in your state.
- Recidivism Reduction Act
- Swift and Certain Sanctions Act
- Community Corrections Performance Incentive Act
- Community Corrections Performance Measurement Act
- Earned Compliance Credit Act
To receive more information or help introducing these pieces in your state, please contact Courtney O’Brien at cobrien@alec.org.
Initiatives
The Prison Overcrowding Web Initiative is the only complete database of all 50 states’ corrections costs and prison population numbers.