[NEohioPAL] Libraries

[Conspicuous Chick]

You also might want to do some research on how many nonviolent
offenders are currently clogging up our prison system. We are not
rehabilitating these individuals, nor are we protecting society by
keeping them incarcerated. We are simply wasting money that could be
put to much better use (including libraries).

>From 1985 to 2000, Ohio increased spending on corrections at five
times the rate that it increased spending on higher education. (from a
JPI, Justice Policy Institute report)

>From http://www.policymattersohio.org/pdf/AnEconomyThatWorks.pdf (2007):

The state will spend $1.7 billion on the Department of Rehabilitation
and Corrections in 2007. But nearly a third (30.8 percent) of male
offenders and more than a third (36 percent) of female offenders are
non-violent offenders, whose most serious crime was drug-related.
(Black, Maureen, (Deputy Director, office of Policy of ODRC) Ohio
Corrections Research Compendium, Volume II, April 2004, page 10, at
http://www.drc.state.oh.us/web/Reports/compendium2004.pdf, accessed
November 2006.)

California’s diversion program was found to save seven dollars for
every dollar spent (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Substance Abuse and Mental Administration, Abuse Treatments for Adults
in the Criminal Justice System, 2005.)

Drug addiction is a disease, physical as well as psychological, and
addicts can procure far more substances in prison than out. The
fiscally responsible thing to do is treat them so they can become
tax-paying citizens and not a drain on our state's resources.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Michael A.
Miller<msrg-publications at cox.net> wrote:
> Yeah, libraries are more important than State Parks. Sorry.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tom Burnett
> To: neohiopal at listserve.com
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [NEohioPAL] Libraries
>
> You will make no impact at all unless your "Don't cut off the libraries!" is
> accompanied by
> some viable suggestion as to what to do to generate that money. Raising taxes in a down economy is a bad idea, so you're going to have to suggest which budget item
> or
> items should be cut to keep that $200+ million coming to the state's libraries.
> Cut
> Medicaid? Close all the state parks? Close prisons and put the convicts into crowded cells
> at the other prisons, or release hundreds or thousands of them? Cut aid to
> the schools? To colleges and universities?
> I use my library a great deal and have always voted in favor of library tax
> issues but, frankly, aid to the state's 251 public libraries would rank
> below any of those things mentioned above.
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:52 AM, neohiopal-request at listserve.com wrote:
>
>                              URGENT
>
>              ACT NOW to SAVE OUR LIBRARIES
>
>
>
>
>
>    Governor Strickland proposes to fill Ohio's $3.2 billion shortfall in
> the
> state budget by eliminating $200+ million from the Public Library Fund
> over
> the next two years.  His proposal will have a drastic impact on all 251
> public
> libraries in Ohio and on Columbus Metropolitan Library in particular.
>
>
>
>   This proposal by the Governor cuts library funding by 50% beginning July
> 1,
> 2009.
>
>
>
>   We only have days to have an impact.
>
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