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Focus on reentry reduced Wisconsin's prison population

Since I'm hopeful Texas will embrace policy changes to reduce the number of inmates in Texas prisons, I was interested to see this story from the Wisconsin State Journal on successful efforts in that state to reduce their prison population by 14% over the last couple of years during a period when crime continued to decline. What did they do to achieve that?it wasn't former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle's controversial earned release program ? coincidentally projected to result in up to 3,000 early releases ? that fueled the reduction. And whatever small impact that program had will likely end soon: GOP Gov. Scott Walker has vowed to kill it.Corrections officials instead credit the reduction to a systemwide push begun five years ago to prepare all prisoners for re-entry into society...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).