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Real conservatives aren't afraid of prison closures

Yesterday I'd rhetorically asked "What would Ronald Reagan do?" about high corrections costs, and in response Jake Horowitz of the Pew Charitable Trusts emailed to point out a related sidebar in this 2008 policy brief (pdf) which reads as follows:The history of state-local corrections partnerships is often dated to California?s 1965 enactment of the Probation Subsidy Act, which provided counties up to $4,000 for each prison-eligible adult or juvenile offender who was supervised, sanctioned and serviced in the community. In combination with other reforms, the act led to several successes achieved under Governor Ronald Reagan. Between 1969 and 1972, the state placed nearly all nonviolent property offenders under local supervision, cut its inmate population by 30 percent, closed eight prison facilities and drove recidivism (within two years of release) down from 40 percent to 25 percent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).