The corrections system processes nearly 12 million people a year.

In 1992 the prison opened the correction system's first residential drug treatment center.

Over the next year and a half, the city's correction system is scheduled to lose 421 officers.

But the early releases have had only a cosmetic effect on the prison population and overall correction system, officials say.

She continued, "This approach is in the best interests of the inmates, their families and our correction system.

In seeking to improve our corrections system, the Bar can use the full diversity of its talents.

The plan focuses on nonviolent offenders coming into the corrections system for the first time.

Despite these pressures, the Legislature is addressing only one measure to expand the corrections system.

"They will be able to deal with these issues and will not be back within the corrections system."