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Soaring prison costs scrutinized
By djournal.com - Bobby Harrison
Published: 10/03/2012

JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI – The dichotomy created by wanting to be tough on crime while holding down prison costs was front and center Tuesday at a state House hearing.

Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps told members of the House Judiciary B and Corrections committees that Mississippi has the second highest incarceration rate in the country, and Mississippi inmates are locked up longer than the national average.

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