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The Texas View of Cost Savings in Criminal Justice

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"Economy Could Impact Prison Policies," is Lydia Crafts' report on KUT this morning.  You can listen to her report at the link.The economic downturn has states across the U.S. looking at ways to reduce its prison population. Texas has the second largest prison population in the country.With the state looking at a $9 Billion dollar budget shortfall, we decided to talk to policy analysts about possibilities for reducing spending on prisoners.Marc Levin is one of the policy analysts featured in the report.  Yesterday, he had an OpEd in the Houston Chronicle on cost savings, noted here. I'm also in the report.

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).