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NY: Overhaul Prisons to Cut Costs

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Overhaul prisons to cut costs By ELIZABETH LYNAM [ Elizabeth Lynam is deputy research director of the Citizens Budget Commission, a nonpartisan nonprofit civic organization, http://www. cbcny.org.] First published: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 With the economy slowing and increasingly uncertain, New York needs to find ways to reduce expenses without harming essential public services. The state already faces closing a projected budget gap of $5.1 billion in the coming fiscal year, and that gap has been adjusted upward once just since January. One place where the state can extract such savings is in its prison system. New York simply does not need all 69 of its correctional facilities. Some of those facilities are now more than half-empty, particularly at the medium- and minimum-security level...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 28, 2008 (boomark / email).