Cash Advance Loans Store Robbery Gets Man 10 Years

Repeat offenders treated harshly
It’s true, you can’t be thrown in prison for 10 years for robbing a cash advance loans store. However, the situation is different if you have already served time for robbery before. A man who robbed a payday loan store in Minnesota at gun point has been [...]

Its too bad signs like this arent very effective. Image from Flickr.

Man Goes to Prison for Payday Loan Scheme

A crime of a different color
Most of the payday loan related crimes I write about involve petty thieves pointing guns in people’s faces and taking off with a bunch of cash. Today, however, I came across a payday loan crime of a different type.
I don’t know if this guy was [...]

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Recession Sends Ex-Convicts Back to the Streets

New York prison focuses on re-entry
State budgets have fallen on hard times, which means states have less money for everything, including prisons. At Attica prison in New York, that has meant many convicts are being released after serving only minimum sentences.
But the efforts to save money have turned out [...]

Attica

Pew Study Says States Could Save Money on Corrections

Locking up Americans too expensive

A report from the Pew Center on the States says there are twice as many adults in the corrections system now than there were 25 years ago.
That amounts to a big chunk of state budgets. The report says changing sentencing laws and probation programs would lower [...]

Crime is taking a bite out of state budgets.