Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published March 13, 2009.
States around the nation are confronting massive budget deficits – but some corrections departments are the only state agencies whose budgets are actually increasing. Prisons hold a small but significant group of people convicted of crimes they committed as juveniles who have been sentenced to life without parole. As Melinda Tuhus reports, some lawmakers are asking what kind of policies not only protect the community, but are also cost-effective.
