That's not something I would claim to have personal expertise on. I think in general your assessment is correct. If we think particularly about first-time or low-severity offenders part of the conversation for achieving public safety savings may be in identifying programs through which we can achieve a long-term crime reduction outcome with that offender outside of conventional public safety criminal justice responses. Potentially that could achieve both a savings at the initial point when they have contact with the justice system but also hopefully it could reduce their proclivity to offend in the future and therefore achieve a long-term savings as well.
On February 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.