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Prevent criminal activity, spend less on prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prevent criminal activity, spend less on prisons Patrick J. Boyd,Rachel Davis Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Inmates are crowded into bunks at California State Prison... Are cost-saving prisons the California dream? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is trying to funnel money toward higher education by addressing prison costs in California. Sure, we could save money by running our prisons more efficiently, but no parent dreams that their kid will grow up to live in a well-run prison. The real savings to California - to the budget and in society- lie in reducing the number of people we put in prison. In the past 30 years, California's population has increased by 62percent, while our prison population has increased by a 645 percent. Violent crime didn't increase by 645 percent...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 12, 2010 (boomark / email).