Franklin Zimring cited in The New York Times, January 25, 2013
If the city had followed the national trend, nearly 60,000 additional New Yorkers would be behind bars today, and the number of city and state correction officers would have more than doubled since 1990, said Franklin E. Zimring…. By not expanding the jail and prison populations … the city and the state have been saving $1.5 billion a year.