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Prisons, Crime and Budgets: Time for a New Paradigm

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisons, Crime and Budgets: Time for a New Paradigm Sheila R. Rule Founder, Resilience Multimedia Posted: March 10, 2011 12:57 PM Huffington Post The volume of tough talk has been ratcheted way up. Governors are talking tough on budget cuts. State workers are protesting threatened rollbacks of their rights and benefits. Ironically, the tough talk dial has been turned way down -- on crime. The hard-line tough-on-crime positions that were instrumental in bringing on the current fiscal woes in state after state are now being replaced by talk that is more nuanced, and even smart, on crime. In many respects, the states have little choice. In New York, for example, it costs roughly $50,000-$55,000 a year to house each of the state's 56,000 prisoners, almost as much as a year's tuition at Harvard University...continue to full post

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