The Chico News & Review, 03 Jan 2013 – Solitary Confinement Can Drive Men Mad One of the positive consequences of California’s fiscal distress has been its reconsideration of its over-reliance on prisons. State officials and the public at large have begun to realize that, when schools and universities and programs for the poor and elderly are being cut, it makes no sense to pay $44,000 a year to imprison, say, a low-level drug dealer.
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