San Francisco Chronicle, May 26, 2011 by Nancy K.D. Lemon
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/26/EDB11JKP15.DTL
Most women now going to prison (and many men) are there for nonviolent crimes such as drug possession—why are we spending an average of $50,000 per year per person to lock them up when we could spend less money to provide community-based drug programs that would address their underlying problems?