
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 14, 1994                   TAG: 9409140019
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

THE ALLEN PLAN

About 50 percent of Virginia prisoners are incarcerated for property crimes today. The percentage would fall to between 30 percent and 40 percent under the Allen plan.

The Allen plan would increase current inmate population projections by 5,200 inmates by the year 2001 and 7,900 more by 2014.

Nonviolent offenders with a prior conviction for violent crime would have their sentences increased threefold to fivefold because ``many nonviolent offenders `graduate' to violent offenses, and many persons arrested and convicted for nonviolent property crimes actually are violent criminals.''

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