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ID: Getting smart on crime does not mean more prisons beds

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Monica Hopkins: Getting smart on crime does not mean more prisons beds BY MONICA HOPKINS - Idaho Statesman 04/12/09 Idaho's current budget deficit poses a crisis for decision makers. While prison spending increases, vital public services like Medicaid and education face cuts. Like all crises, this is also an opportunity. What better time to question the diminishing returns on the millions of dollars Idaho invests annually on corrections, probation and parole? Unfortunately, our country leads the world in incarceration. Nearly one person in every 99 is behind bars. Between 1987 and 2007, the U.S. prison population tripled. A recent Pew Center on the States report ranked Idaho second in the nation for adults under correctional control, at one in every 18 Idahoans...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).