Missouri Chief Justice backs alternatives for nonviolent offenders

Submitted on February 15, 2011
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Joseph Kenny | jkenny@stlouisreview.com
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Within five years of their release from prison, 58.5 percent of nonviolent offenders are reincarcerated. "Prison is the most expensive and least effective strategy for a significant number of nonviolent offenders," Missouri Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. told a joint session of the General Assembly in Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 9.

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