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"...budget cuts no longer allow for that, they said." Is the amount of money being spent on prisons in the United States really shrinking? Honestly, I have no

• anigbrowl 12y ago
  I think it's more the amount of money bugeted for prosecutor's offices. Normally things like this would go past a review attorney whose job is is to separate privieleged communications from non-privileged and pass only the latter to the prosecutors, but those are the bottom-rung jobs and the first to go when there are budget cuts. Not many politicians are interested in the legal problems of federal prisoners, standing up on this sort of issue is a sure way to be labeled as 'soft on crooks' by your electoral opponents. Chances are that this won't get fixed until a sufficiently high-level court rules on it, at which point we'll hear a lot of whining about 'activist judges' and so on. What a revolting development.
• yardie 12y ago
  No, just more things being illegal. More prisons, more prisoners, same amount of money. I seriously doubt any prison has had a budget cut. No politician wants to be seen as soft on crime. And since they can't scale it back the budget stays status quo.