When crime rates begin to increase politicians are confronted with pressure to get tough on crime. When this occurs, the overcrowding of state penitentiaries becomes a problem that induces economic strife on a county level. This spill over into the county is a result of the filtering of inmates from state penitentiaries to county jails. In an effort to house these criminals, counties must build additional cell space or develop alternative means of confining convicted criminals. County Executive Julio Eller proposed an Intermediate Criminal Sanction that would divert qualified non-violent criminals to intensely supervised probation instead of sending them to prison. This sanction was economically driven to reduce state spending as well
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