11.   Besides building prisons and increasing incarceration, what is left?

12.   A House measure imposing longer prison sentences, repealing some crime-prevention measures approved last fall, and building more prisons is in the Senate Judiciary Committee.

13.   Building a prison brings automatic jobs and revenue to the neighboring cities.

14.   Building more prisons for burglars and robbers would cost more than the savings society would achieve from a reduction in the crimes, he said.

15.   But Armbrister said that lawmakers are increasingly unconvinced that building more prisons and increasing salaries even more are the answers to the problems the system is facing.

16.   But nearly as many also said the state should send drug offenders to treatment programs rather than build new prisons.

17.   Candidates on both sides are trying to demonstrate that they can build more prisons and keep more offenders off the streets.

18.   Double the spending to build federal prisons and to require drug-testing of prisoners.

19.   Everyone agreed that states should have more money to build prisons, but they disagreed over how stringent the requirements should be for the states to get the money.

20.   For cheap land and cheap labor, prisons are usually built in poor areas whose legislators scrap fiercely for the construction money and jobs.