Keeping parolees out of prison makes sense / Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 Feb 2006

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"What a concept: By focusing on helping paroled state prisoners successfully re-enter society, the number of prison inmates fell. And because of that, neither of two mothballed state prisons had to be reopened, at a cost of $64 million a year. It's an example of how a small expenditure on one end of a problem can prevent a huge expenditure on the other. "