Report: Reducing incarceration rate could save billions

Published June 9, 2010 4:00am ET



A new report from the D.C.-based Center for Economic and Policy Research says state and local governments could cut about 25 percent of their corrections budgets by lowing their incarceration rates.

In total, the governments could save about $15 billion by putting non-violent offenders on probation or parole, instead of keeping them locked up, according to the nonpartisan think tank’s report.

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