save money by reforming prison population

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10577283

Here's one place to save money and get people productive instead of a drain. What happened to talking about the government spending less? I heard Obama once talk about cutting back on defense spending (Yay!). But come on. There's a lot of waste and dumb spending going on. Certainly we can do better by spending less than bailing out more?