Report Of The National Task Force On Federal Legislation Imposing Reporting Requirements And Expectations On The Criminal Justice System

Reviews the need to examine the extent to which & the manner in which Fed. legislation imposes reporting requirements & expectations on the criminal justice system &, in particular, the courts. Provides a snapshotÓ of the State court & central repository systems & a review of legislative & judicial trends relating to Fed. directives. Reviews constitutional challenges to certain Fed. mandates on State & local governments, as well as congressional efforts to address the issue of Fed. requirements imposed without sufficient accompanying funding. Examines 3 clusters of Fed. statutes that create obligations or expectations that State & local courts & justice agencies will provide info.

After forty years of increasing prison construction and incarceration rates, winds of change are blowing through the American correctional system. The 2008 financial crisis demonstrated the unsustainability of the incarceration project, thereby empowering policy makers to reform punishment through fiscal prudence and austerity. In Cheap on Crime, Hadar Aviram draws on years of archival and journalistic research and builds on social history and economics literature to show the powerful impact of recession-era discourse on the death penalty, the war on drugs, incarceration practices, prison health care, and other aspects of the American correctional landscape.