Facing an 11,000-bed shortfall by 2011, the Department of Corrections said it would have to build more prisons. 'There are 10 to 15 years' worth of studies showing just locking up drug offenders or those who commit property crimes doesn't work,' said corrections secretary Jeffrey Beard said. 'Confinement alone, without addressing problems, is not an effective way of dealing with people.' A package of four bills modeled in… [read post]