As Prisons Squeeze Budgets, GOP Rethinks Crime Focus

As Prisons Squeeze Budgets, GOP Rethinks Crime Focus
Among the key backers are conservative Christians talking of redemption and libertarians who have come to see the prison system as the embodiment of a heavy-handed state. And crime rates are falling nationally, a trend that has continued in most of the … Read more on Wall Street Journal

County seeks potential tenant for shuttered forest work camp
Until its closure, inmates did forest work, including watershed restoration and weed control; learned construction skills; and participated in alcohol and drug treatment or education programs. Federal timber payments historically provided the lion's … Read more on The Register-Guard