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well over $100 million. In addition, it costs $20,000 per inmate or a total of $60 million annually to imprison this portion of our criminal population.
While the rate of repeat offenses is high whatever you do, the evidence suggests that imprisonment is not the most effective way to reduce future criminal behavior by non-violent lawbreakers.
Indeed, if keeping people in prison for longer periods of time were the way to reduce crime, Virginia, which already incarcerates inmates for longer periods than most other states, would have less crime. But we do not.
Of course the Commonwealth needs prisons. There are some people who should never be released or
should be kept in custody until they are no longer capable of hurting others. Indeed, the handful of extremely violent and aggressive
inmates should be kept in prison far longer than they are now. Weeding out non-violent offenders would allow us to do just that. It would also keep us from having to build more prisons, at least for a while.
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