The Columbus Dispatch : Governor wants prisons re-evaluated:
Of the 16,994 short-term inmates admitted to Ohio's prison system in 2006, nine were released after a single day.
Another 32 stayed a week, 236 were out in 30 days, and 2,180, or 12.8 percent of all those sentenced to a year or less, were back on the street in three months.
Yet each prisoner cost the state several hundred dollars to process into the system and $69.40 for each day behind bars.
Gov. Ted Strickland, who is facing the first big financial crunch of his short time in office, shakes his head at the revolving door on Ohio prisons.
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In an interview with The Dispatch, Strickland said he hopes to ease prison crowding and save state taxpayer dollars at the same time, perhaps by diverting short-term prisoners to community lockups (some of which are funded by the state at lower rates) or other alternatives.
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Strickland, a former state-prison psychologist, said he has ruled out building new prisons or reopening closed ones, even though the prison population recently topped 50,000 for the first time.
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