State prison admissions fall
With states decriminalizing marijuana and scaling back 1970s-era drug laws, admissions to state prisons have fallen from 689,536 in 2006 to 553,843 in 2012. New York state alone has shut down 24 prison facilities since 2011.
USA Today
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