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HI: State should reduce reliance on incarceration

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

State should reduce reliance on incarceration Honolulu-Star Advertiser Island Voices: Editorial January 26, 2011 By Marilyn Brown The decision by Gov. Neil Abercrombie and Department of Public Safety Director Jodie Maesaka-Hirata to return Hawaii inmates to the state hopefully signals the end of a wasteful and dangerous experiment in mass incarceration, enabled by a deeply flawed policy of transferring prisoners to the mainland. Transfer increased our reliance on expensive prison beds rather than cost-effective community sanctions for non-serious offenders. It wasn't always so. In the 25 years between 1982 and 2007, the proportion of law breakers who were incarcerated versus those supervised in the community grew by 45 percent, according to the Pew Center...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).