Prison Spending Outpaces All But Medicaid

Prison Spending Outpaces All But Medicaid

Tuesday's New York Times leads with a story that prison spending is the big winner in the state government budget race. This headline is a testament to two age-old policy follies – the failure to provide parity in treatment benefits for mental health and addictive disorders and the criminalization of addiction. The growth of the prison population – now holding . . .