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NY Daily News Editorial: N.Y. needs a prison break: With lower crime, costs should be lowered too -- if unions will allow it

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

N.Y. needs a prison break: With lower crime, costs should be lowered too -- if unions will allow it Editorials Daily News Tuesday, February 15th 2011 Thanks to plunging crime rates, New York's prison system is far bigger than it needs to be - with one of every eight beds empty. Gov. Cuomo has called for downsizing and appointed a task force to identify underused penitentiaries for closure. But almost any effort to save tax dollars in Albany brings out the crazy talk, and Cuomo's prison plan is no exception. The rhetorical flamethrower in this case is correction officers union chief Donn Rowe. According to him, shedding 3,500 beds - less than half the system's excess capacity - would be nothing less than "catastrophic." Such a move would present "a clear and present danger to our prison system," he hyperventilated...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2011 (boomark / email).