Center for Economic and Policy Research
The chart is taken from this report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal research group. The report presents a relatively unusual approach for dealing with the country’s fiscal challenges: that state and local governments could save money by cutting the incarceration rate for nonviolent offenders and bringing the rate more in line with those for our peer countries.
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Posted June 6, 2010 by Hanna Silver under Financial News