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Priorities and Public Safety: Reentry and the Rising Costs of our Corrections System
This report, Priorities and Public Safety: Reentry and the Rising Costs of our Corrections System, prepared by the Crime and Justice Institute for the Boston Foundation as part of our Understanding Boston series, shows that several of our competitor states are taking advantage of the utility of trouble by reinventing their corrections systems in more innovative ways informed by data and best practices. This report finds that several states are enacting major policy changes to reduce the practice of incarceration and lower the cost of corrections. The result has been not only more cost-effective government, but also, even more importantly, improved public safety.
- Available online
- http://www.cjinstitute.org/
- Len Engel
- Date
- December 2009
- State
- Massachusetts
- Full Title
- Priorities and Public Safety: Reentry and the Rising Costs of our Corrections System
- Publisher
- The Crime and Justice Institute