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A new governor looks behind Georgia?s prison bars to save money

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

A new governor looks behind Georgia?s prison bars to save money January 15, 2011 By Jim Galloway Despite three years of turmoil, the economic crisis in Georgia has resulted in few fundamental shifts in state policy. We have had furloughs, layoffs and ballooning classrooms forced by the whittling of state and local budgets. Price-conscious state troopers, looking to save on gas, are chasing fewer speeders and setting up more DUI gantlets. But the Great Recession has yet to alter our basic approach to problems ? although that may be about to change. In recent days, both Gov. Nathan Deal and House Speaker David Ralston have dropped not-so-subtle hints that Georgia can no longer afford to lock up so many of its people. Or, at least, so many of the wrong people...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 16, 2011 (boomark / email).