Cutting Correctly: New Prison Policies for Times of Fiscal Crisis
Judith Greene and Vincent Schiraldi
Published: February 12, 2002
Corrections was one of the fastest growing line items in state budgets in the 1990’s. It cost nearly $40 billion to imprison approximately two million state and local inmates in 2000, up from $5billion in 1978. Twenty-four billion of that was spent on incarceration for non-violent offenders.
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Cost Savings, Criminal Justice, Fiscal Policy, Report, State & Local Policy
Posted in Fiscal Policy