As more states push to re-evaluate their budgets, a movement aiming to shift funding from jails to schools and other support services is gaining steam nationwide.

By: Dan Berger ,; Layne Mullett ,; Isaac Lev Szmonko ,; Truthout

July 16, 2013

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