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MI: Education and Business coalition say cut prison spending

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Reform Corrections spending Rob Fowler and Michael Boulus November 9, 2010 Detroit News As representatives from a diverse group of business and education organizations, we call on the new governor to tackle one of the largest contributors to the state's chronic structural deficit: Corrections spending. Gov.-elect Rick Snyder will have the opportunity to reform the state's prison system and its operations to address this problem. We strongly urge him to seize this opportunity. The legislature and the governor agreed to the FY2011 Corrections' budget in late September. Across-the-board cuts to prisons and operational efficiencies were largely offset by increases to employee salaries and retirement costs. As a result, the FY11 general fund budget is only $1...continue to full post

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