Looking to cut a corrections budget that accounts for nearly a quarter of the state’s general fund each year, Michigan lawmakers have reopened the door to privatizing state prisons.

Prison systems constitute a major slice of state budgets across the country, prompting legislators to explore savings measures. Under legislation signed into law by Gov. Rick Snyder (R) this week, Michigan could send inmates to a troubled private prison or privatize other prisons as part of an effort to trim costs in the state’s $1.9 billion corrections system…

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