Maggie Hassan on Crime

15 more state troopers on state roads

Provide capital funds to build a new women's prison

For too long, our corrections system has woefully neglected women. Like our men's prison, our women's prison must offer facilities that can provide the programs that help individuals safely move back into society when they have served their sentences.

To ensure justice and to improve our public safety, this capital budget includes the funds necessary to build a new women's prison. It is time; we cannot delay this any longer.

Parole violators go to jail, for all released convicts

• The state prison population has increased 31% since 2000.
• Revocations from parole have increased 50% since 2000, and probation and parole revocations now account for 57% of all admissions to state prison.
• A large number of people are held in prison beyond their minimum sentence date. Furthermore, 16% of people released from NH prisons completed their maximum sentence without receiving parole supervision.
• Intent:
• Make probation and parole supervision tough and smart by creating tools for probation and parole officers to use in reducing recidivism such as short, swift, and certain jail sanctions for supervising probationers and intermediate sanction programs for parolees in lieu of revocation to prison.
• Ensure everyone leaving prison receives at least 9 months of post-release supervision.