[USA] Prisons: State has to conserve prison space for worst offenders / Lansing State Journal, 20 March 2007
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"As lawmakers wade deeper into Michigan's budget thicket, they will run smack dab into the Department of Corrections. How could they not? DOC now uses almost $2 billion from the general fund and is the largest single employer in state government. DOC also has the distinction of an agency that has continued to grow even while other key state accounts were cut. That has to change, for the simple fact that Michigan can't afford its present policy."