"Most states are facing serious budget deficits,"said Susan Urahn, managing director of The Pew Center on the States. "Every single one of them should be making smart investments in community corrections that will help them cut costs and improve outcomes." Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Another good investigative journalism from an NGO? The report is covered in the NYT and Common Dreams. This is the report itself.
If we regulate and tax pot, instead of criminalizing it, how many of these jailbirds would leave the cage?
An excellent report on the needless spending of billions of dollars on an outdated prison theory of locking up anyone who breaks non-violent laws. Spending $29,000 on one inmate for one year when you could spend 12 to 13 thousand dollars putting them on parole or probation is the height of stupidity.
Not only could the states save money, making them get their GED and learn a trade, will not only lower the crime rate, it could build up the tax rate.
Well Written commentary on the state of Prison in US. only one fact was missing US has more people in prison than any other country in the world including china and russia.
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