As noted earlier in this chapter, correction officials are reducing prison budgets by releasing nonviolent
offenders before their sentences are finished. In your paper, answer the following questions:
• What is your opinion of this strategy as a budget reducer?
• What might be some of the consequences of large-scale early-release programs
for drug dealers and those convicted of property crimes?
• Choose one option that makes more sense to you. Explain why.
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