By The Spokesman Review Editorial Board

June 16, 2012

“Budgets largely reflect how much states are willing to educate, medicate and incarcerate. The cost of incarceration can be found on any state budget, but what that document doesn’t show is what could’ve been purchased instead. We know that if we make long-term investments in early education, fewer people will be apt to break the laws. If we underfund mental health care and addiction programs, jail and prison populations will grow.”

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