May 20, 2011
States seek to escape rising prison costs
States have been shackled for years by the rising cost of keeping inmates in prison. Now they are planning a getaway.
In the final stretch of approving budgets for the next fiscal year, many statehouses want to save money by changing incarceration policies and closing prisons. Florida is set to bring in more private contractors to run its prisons while Ohio and Louisiana consider selling theirs.
More than 2 million people are in state and federal prisons and local jails, many in facilities funded by states. For almost all states, corrections is a rapidly growing expense...
LINK - Reuters.com
