Ed Rendell on Crime Democratic PA Governor

Fund education well, and we can cut incarceration costs

Supports the death penalty

Indicate which principles you support regarding crime.
• Support the death penalty in Pennsylvania.
• Require that crimes based on race, ethnic background, religious belief, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation be prosecuted as hate crimes.
• Strengthen sex-offender laws.
• Rendell adds, “I have fought to reduce domestic violence and protect domestic violence victims, and I strengthened Megan’s Law and improved Pennyslvania’s Amber Alert system.”

End parole for repeat violent offenders

Indicate which principles you support regarding crime.
• Support programs to provide prison inmates with vocational and job-related skills.
• End parole for repeat violent offenders.
• Implement penalties other than incarceration for certain non-violent offenders.
• Increase state funding for community centers and other social agencies in areas with at-risk youth.
• Increase state funding for state and local emergency agencies to prevent or respond to terrorism.