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By: Scott Ervin
E-mail: ervinscott@hotmail.com
"The Prison Alternative" America has to wake up and realize that the current structure of our penal system is failing terribly. Take a group of people, strip them of possessions and privacy, expose them to constant threats of violence, overcrowd their cell-block, depr ....
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.... an environment that is inevitably harmful to its residents. Even by delaying release by longer sentences, residents will eventually return to damage the community. Society is paying the bill for this injustice to go on. Not including Federal Funds, states spent $28.9 billion on corrections in 1997 alone. To compare, the states only spent $14.0 billion on welfare to the poor (National Association of State Budget Officers 1997). Why should we force taxpayers to pay to keep nonviolent criminals sitting in prison cells where they become bitter and more likely to repeat their offenses whe ....
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