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Michigan can save millions on prison costs, group says

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Thursday, January 22, 2009 Detroit News Michigan can save millions on prison costs, group says Gary Heinlein and Charlie Cain / Detroit News Lansing Bureau LANSING --Michigan can save $262 million in five years on prison spending with new policies that include targeted crime fighting and expanded job services for probationers and parolees, a national study group said today. The Council of State Governments also recommends the state reduce its crime lab backlogs and respond to probation violations with "swift, certain and proportional sanctions." Corrections Director Patricia Caruso said the policy options presented today are "a critical step toward an affordable and effective corrections system that helps us go beyond what we have achieved in cost savings since 2003...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).