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| Op-Ed: Transforming prisoners |
| By Bangor Daily News |
| Published: 01/17/2008 |
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MAINE - A state-run unified corrections system proposed by Gov. Baldacci would save taxpayers $7 million in the first year, growing to a total of almost $38 million by 2015, proponents claim. The governor is selling his state takeover of county jails on savings for the beleaguered Maine taxpayer. Less spending on cells and guards is certainly a good thing, but what may be even more compelling is the opportunity that comes with the governor’s plan to more successfully turn offenders into productive members of society. Maine’s incarceration rate is 50th among U.S. states, and its spending on corrections is 45th, Corrections Commissioner Martin Magnusson said at a recent meeting at which he was pitching the governor’s jail takeover plan. But county budgets, driven by jail costs, have grown by an average of 9 percent in the last four years, he said. Collectively, more money is being spent, the commissioner suggested, but it is not being spent where it can make the biggest difference in the lives of offenders and communities. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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