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Right-size justice system
Close prisons and reform the drug laws
There are plenty of hard decisions state officials will have to make to close New York's budget gap and set the government on course to live within its means. Mercifully, some are not so hard. In that category are closing four half-empty prisons and reforming the state's Rockefeller Drug Laws.
The savings to be had aren't as big as those from changes in school funding and Medicaid. But with...
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