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: The Sentencing Project

Read News: To Save Money on Prisons, States Take a Softer Stance

By The Sentencing Project

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In attempts to manage state budgets, policy makers and criminal justice officials nationwide are looking at cost-cutting measures that include alternatives to incarceration. The Sentencing Project's Ryan S. King was quoted in USA Today as saying: "It's clear that locking up hundreds of thousands of people does not guarantee public safety … State governments operated on the principle that if you built it, they would come. As soon as they built those prisons, they filled them. They were never able to keep up with it. There is certainly a different atmosphere now." Posted Date:3/18/2009 8:48:59 PM

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on March 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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