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More than half the states and the District of Columbia are trying to reduce the growth in their prison populations through alternative sentencing and new probation and parole procedures. According to the Pew Center on the States, it costs an average of $79 a day to keep an inmate in prison but about $3.50 a day to monitor the same person on probation or parole. Texas is one state now faced with economic pressure to make adjustments to its criminal justice system to save money. These adjustments include providing rehabilitation in cases of drug and alcohol-related, non-violent offenses. Such programming offers the prospect of saving money and providing more effective methods for correcting criminal behavior than imprisonment. Posted Date:7/14/2009 1:20:18 PMcontinue to full post

Full post as published by The Sentencing Project on July 14, 2009 (boomark / email).