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Especially awful editorial on proposal by Michigan's govenror to cage CA prisoners

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Editorial: Win-win: Sending felons to Michigan Wednesday, Jul. 1, 2009 Sacramento Bee In the depths of the worst recession since World War II, California may be giving birth to a new export industry. It's an export in which California appears to have important competitive advantages. And it may be recession-proof. The export is prison inmates. California has something of a head start in this market. The state already has sent 7,600 inmates to private prisons in Arizona, Tennessee, Mississippi and Oklahoma. But it hasn't yet sent inmates to public prisons in other states. Like other economic innovations, this one required a visionary leader willing to think outside the box. For prisons, it appears to be Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan. Her state is closing several prisons ­ not, it says, because of the recession but because an innovative re-entry program has sharply cut recidivism...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 04, 2009 (boomark / email).