New Haven Independent

Listen To Toni Harp

by Paul Bass | March 31, 2006 8:04 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

If New Haven State Sen. Toni Harp and her fellow Democrats have their way, the state will need 1,300 fewer prison beds next year — because it will start a $19 million alternatives- to- incarceration program that both gives people a better shot in life and saves money. That program is part of a $16.6 billion alternative state budget plan Harp, co-chair of the legislature’s Appropriations Committee, helped to announce Thursday. Click here to listen to Harp describe the budget plan (with Real Player; click here to use Windows.) Click here to read Christine Stuart’s report on the announcement.

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