How to Cut Prison Costs

Thanks in part to the federal Second Chance Act of 2008, states are finding creative ways to cut prison costs - now more than $52 billion a year nationwide - by making sure that people who are released from prison actually stay out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/opinion/sunday/how-to-cut-prison-costs.html?partner=rssnyt&partner=TOPIXNEWS