Boston needs to start stocking up on body bags

Bobby Constantino takes a look at the House Ways and Means budget that came out today, notices it dramatically cuts teen-jobs, violence-prevention and criminal return-to-society programs, writes the last time something like that happened, in 2003, youth murders in Boston doubled.

... In spite of the fact that every shred of research coming out of the foremost institutions in the world, which also happen to be in our state, indicates that recidivism and prevention spending are more effective and cheaper than prison spending, our Department of Corrections budget section allocates 500 times more for prisons than it does for reentry.

This is just insane. It makes no budget sense, common sense or any other sense. There really is no explanation for ignoring all of the data and wasting money like this. It's almost like we actually enjoy wasting taxpayer money in this state. ...