House Arrest Every year, state and federal prisons are filled to capacity with nonviolent criminals. This puts pressure on parole boards to release criminals who under normal circumstances would not be released due to the nature of their crimes. Each State's Department of Corrections has to spend more of taxpayers' money each year for prison maintenance, correctional officers and prison healthcare. The problem of prison over population can easily be put under control with the …showed first 75 words of 916 total…

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