US states free prisoners to cut budget deficits
Some 28 states have planned cuts in prison budgets next year: Kansas opted to cut 22 per cent, Nebraska 18 per cent, Illinois 17 per cent and Georgia 15 per cent - although the use of federal stimulus money has softened the blow. The result is that the US could see the first fall in prison population since the early 1970s, says John Pfaff, a professor at Fordham University in New York who studies prisoner numbers.
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