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Published: May 11, 2008
Release valves: States act to ease prison burden
The Oklahoman Editorial
A SKED how things are going at his agency, the state corrections director said, "The soaring inmate census has created a crisis here. We've been busting the budget continuously ... our prisons have been packed.”

The quote comes not from Justin Jones of Oklahoma , but from the man who heads corrections in tiny Rhode Island . Regardless of size, states from coast to coast are faced with the same problem: How best ...

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