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Tanking economy prompts rethinking incarceration

As states struggle with paying for expanding prison populations in a tanking economy, Texas' 2007 diversion reforms were cited as a model in a New York Times editorial today titled "Shrinking the Prison Population":New prison sentencing and re-entry policies are already taking hold in several states, thanks in part to work by the Council of State Governments? prison policy arm, the Justice Center, with the support of the Pew Charitable Trust?s Center on the States.Their results have been especially impressive in Texas and Kansas, law-and-order states that were facing huge increases in their prison populations before they turned to the Justice Center for analyses and policy suggestions. Last month, representatives from both states testified about their experience before a House appropriations subcommittee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).