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NC: Lawmakers laugh at prison reform

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Few fixes for full prisons Some inmates held at county jails. But an alternative is met with laughter Dan Kane, Staff Writer For North Carolina lawmakers, the response to the state's growing prison population over the past decade has been consistent -- build more prisons. It is the most expensive option, with prisons costing tens of millions of dollars to build. But when state Rep. Ronnie Sutton, a Pembroke Democrat, challenged his colleagues Thursday at a meeting of House and Senate budget committees to consider a different course, lawmakers burst out laughing. Sutton suggested that lawmakers put more money into prevention instead of incarceration and asked, "Is there anyone who thinks that we are going to change our mode of operation?" After the laughter died down, Demo-cratic Rep...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 17, 2008 (boomark / email).