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| Editorial - Follow Texas |
| By The Detroit News |
| Published: 07/09/2007 |
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LANSING, MI - The U.S. now has more than two million people behind bars. In Michigan, that surge is eating up scarce state funds that are needed for investment in higher education and economic development -- the essentials to rebuilding the state economy. Yet many residents fear a reduction in prison population will put dangerous offenders on the streets. That's not necessary. Other states are finding smart policy solutions to reducing prison populations, and Michigan can learn from them. Texas, for example, was facing millions in rising prison costs due not to rising crime, but to dysfunctional parole and probation systems, which were behind in processing the release of prisoners. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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