Criminal justice: are you ready for the science bit? / New Scientist, 10 Feb 2007
http://digbig.com/4rgmp
Peter Aldhous
"UK Home Secretary John Reid is in deep trouble, trying to manage a criminal justice system that has filled prisons to overflowing. In his defence, Reid claims that "projecting the prison population is never an exact science". Perhaps he should visit the US state of Washington, which has been using scientific principles to try to avoid a similar crisis."

Evidence-Based Public Policy Options to Reduce Future Prison Construction, Criminal Justice Costs, and Crime Rates / WSIPP, October 2006
PDF - http://www.wsipp.wa.gov/rptfiles/06-10-1201.pdf
Steve Aos, Marna Miller, Elizabeth Drake