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Criminal

Oct. 1, 2004

Privatizing State's Prisons Will Lower Costs, Improve Rehabilitation Efforts

Forum Column - By Alexander Tabarrok - It's going to take more than a giant garage sale to balance California's budget. In one way, however, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is fortunate; he inherited a system with lots of room for improvement. On the verge of being taken over by a federal receiver, the state's expensive and inefficient prison system is a case in point.

        
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