Word: krisberg
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Dates: during 1989-1989
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...prison construction and operation. By last year the figure was $500 million. Yet the system is still so crowded that Texas has already closed its prison doors to new inmates six times this year. "Corrections used to be a trivial amount of a state's budget," says Barry Krisberg, president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, a San Francisco-based advocacy group. "Now states are facing severe choices between more prisons or schools and public services...