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Idea to send:	Topic Crime bill cost projections Content Require the fiscal impact of criminal legislation and correctional supervision legislation be attached to the front of each bill before a vote is taken in a legislative committee or on the floor of the legislature. The lack of such cost information encourages harsher sentencing mandates that our children and grandchildren will be paying for. This legislation is enabling the courts to obligate more funds to pay for incarceration for long periods of time.Conduct an actuarial study similar to that used for a retirement system on the prison populatiion to determine the future cost to incarcerate those in prison for the duration of their probable stay. Require judges to consider the projected cost of incarceration to the state when imposing a prison term. Explore methods for the sentencing county to bear some cost, or reap some benefit, if it sentences above or below the rate expected for its population and crime rate.