Right now, more than 50,000 Ohioans are locked up in prison. The system is at 130 percent capacity. Most incoming prisoners are sentenced to less than a year. So the state legislature is considering giving judges more discretion to keep these low-level offenders out of prison. But critics say: if you do the crime, you should do the time. On the Sound of Ideas, the state of Ohio’s prisons. That’s Wednesday at 9am on 90.3.
Rep. John J. White (R-Kettering)
Terry Collins, director of the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction
Judge Richard K. Warren, Allen County Court of Common Pleas
Edward Little, Criminal Justice Consultant