(Atlanta Journal Constitution) — Georgia taxpayers spend $1 billion a year locking up so many criminal offenders that the state has the fourth-highest incarceration rate in the nation. When it comes to overall criminal punishment, no state outdoes Georgia. Hard-nosed measures approved with wide public support forced a five-fold increase in corrections spending since 1985.
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