Thursday, May 20, 2010

What determines a States budget for Pardons & Clemencies?

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/kobil.htm





377. A recent survey of state clemency practices found that Georgia and Arkansas had 262 and 55 investigatory employees working full-time in their respective clemency departments. The next highest number of full-time investigatory employees was five, reported by North Dakota. California had only six part-time investigatory employees, and most of the states that responded to the survey had no more than one. See Guide to State Clemency, supra note 28, at 174 table 10 (Clemency Staffing Arrangements and Salary Levels).


378. See Greene, America's Prisons: Who's Punishing Whom?, Forbes, Mar. 21, 1988, at 132.


379. Georgia reported by far the highest budget for clemency of any state. In 1987, Georgia allocated $2.6 million for its Board of Pardons and Paroles. Guide to State Clemency, supra note 28, at 173 table 9 (States' Average Annual Clemency Budgets).

What determines a States budget for Pardons %26amp; Clemencies?
The priority that the residents and legislators of that state place on it, relative to other demands on the state budget. As it should be.


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