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| Editorial: Locked in to prison costs |
| By The Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 12/11/2006 |
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DETROIT, MICHIGAN - With so many challenges facing the state, Michigan needs to stop spending $5 million a day -- almost 20% of the state's general-purpose money -- to lock people up. Especially when it's not getting that much for its investment. Incarceration rates here are among the highest in the nation at a time when the state is strapped for cash. And Michigan's prison population, now a record 51,044, is on the rise again, increasing 3% so far this year. The state added nearly 1,700 additional inmates in the first 10 months of 2006. Prison planners did not expect to hit the current population until March 2008. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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