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Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid
March 3, 2009 By SOLOMON MOORE One in every 31 adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on parole or probation, at a cost to the states of $47 billion in 2008, according to a new study. Corre… more →
Smith of the Long Field
Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid
smithofthelongfield wrote 9 months ago: March 3, 2009 By SOLOMON MOORE One in every 31 adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on … more →
Department of Justice Provides $109M for Prisoner Reentry Programs.
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smithofthelongfield wrote 9 months ago: WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The President released the Administration’ … more →
More of the Same in the California Department of Corrections.
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: After thirteen years, and two federal receivers, the California prison system is still a mess. If t … more →
Duval County is Losing the Fight Against Crime... But No-one Seems to Care.
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Interesting story in today’s Times-Union here in Jacksonville, FL. The most telling part of t … more →
Are We Ready to Take the First Steps in The Jacksonville Journey.
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: A couple weeks ago, Nat Glover wrote a letter to the City Council of Jacksonville begging them to ap … more →
Time to Get Real and Start Talking
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: It’s almost football season. Are you ready? I certainly am. I’ve been reading all the … more →
Getting Tough on Crime is Getting Old...
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: I wrote a post a few months ago about how our countries “Get Tough” stance on crime in … more →
The Second Chance Act, and What it Means for Federal Inmates
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Here’s an interesting article from a former federal inmate, Jonathan Richards. His report abo … more →
The Cost of Incarcerating our Citizens is Bankrupting our Country
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Every day there is story after story on how states are battling with the increased costs of housing … more →
Progress in Boston
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Here’s yet another city that is taking actions in order to improve the community and reduce cr … more →
Just the Facts, For you Skeptics Out There...
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: I received a lot of supportive emails from people that viewed yesterday’s article, and I appre … more →
A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action, Please...
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Jacksonville Mayor John Peyton will not be in attendance today at the US Conference of Mayors. You … more →
Where Will Your Mayor be Tomorrow?
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Hopefully in NYC to address the issue of prisoner reentry… U.S. Mayors to Tackle Prisoner Reen … more →
Progress in Arizona Prisons
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smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: In the past, Arizona has had the reputation of running one of the toughest prison systems in the co … more →
Progress in Santa Barbara
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Here’s a great article that touches on the tough issues surrounding the implementation of comm … more →
Change is Coming to New York City Jails, and it is for the Better...
smithofthelongfield wrote 1 year ago: Correction Commissioner Pushes Against Critics BY CHRISTOPHER FAHERTY – Staff Reporter of the … more →
A Sound Approach to Lowering Health Care Costs
youthwasted wrote 1 year ago: By Smithofthelongfield: So How Do We Reduce the Costs of Health Care in our Jails and Communities? O … more →
