Satisfying the Demands of Corrections

• NCJ Number: 119939
• Journal: Corrections Today Volume: 51 Issue: 6 Dated: (October 1989) Pages: 34,96
• Author(s): R Thornburgh
• Editor(s): H Mohn
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 2 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Edited version of keynote address to American Correctional Association's General Session of its 119th Congress of Correction, August 14, 1989, at Baltimore, Maryland

Annotation

This address by the U.S. Attorney General emphasizes the role played by the American Correctional Association in advocating positive correctional change.

Abstract

The challenge for corrections policymakers is that the public demands more arrests and prosecutions but does not argue for increased jail and prison space. The Bush administration's anti-crime legislative proposals are discussed, as well as State prison construction programs, electronic monitoring and home confinement, interventions to reduce drug abuse by young people, and community supervision programs.