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"Liberate N.Y. from its prisons" by Robert Gangi

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Liberate N.Y. from its prisons By Robert Gangi December 7, 2010 Albany Times Union Despite a sharply declining prison population and the very real need to cut state agency budgets, New York has closed hardly any of its underutilized prisons. For example, the state budget approved earlier this year included eliminating funding for just 450 beds. More ambitious plans to shut facilities have failed largely for political reasons. Concerned about the loss of jobs, the correction officers union and legislators from upstate areas where most of the prisons are located have successfully blocked most closure proposals made by the state's past three governors: George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson. Now, however, trends that have been building for years in New York have reached a level of an almost perfect storm...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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