Prof. Murray Quoted by AP on Prison Escape

Professor JaneAnne Murray was quoted by the Associated Press in a piece that appeared in multiple outlets regarding the recent escape of a non-violent offender from a minimum security prison in Sioux Falls, who went on to commit a string of additional crimes. Murray cautioned that incidents like this one should not necessarily cause officials to change how they classify inmates. The only way to avoid mistakes would be to put more inmates in medium- and high-security prisons that are more expensive and less likely to rehabilitate the inmates, she said, adding, "In my view, that's not where we want to go with our prisons."