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Spinelss Not Just in California

By Michael Blankenship

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California was on the mark when he said this week that the state needed to change policies that spend more money on prisons than on the state?s once-vaunted higher education systems, which are being bled to death in budget cuts. But Mr. Schwarzenegger was way off the mark when he suggested that the answer was to privatize prison services or to pass yet another constitutional amendment, this time to limit prison spending. Read more.... This NY Times editorial goes on to criticize the proposal to privatize prison in hopes of some future cost savings. Such proposals are the equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic (forgive the trite phrase).  As the editorial correctly points out, the root of the problem is too many people in prison (and the same can be said for probation)...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on January 08, 2010 (boomark / email).