The Price of Prisons: Examining State Spending Trends, 2010-2015
"From the early 1970s into the new millennium, the U.S. prison population
experienced unprecedented growth, which had a direct influence on state
budgets. In recent years, however, lawmakers in nearly every state and
from across the political spectrum have enacted new laws to reduce
prison populations and spending. This report, which builds upon the
information found in Vera’s 2012 publication The Price of Prisons: What Incarceration Costs Taxpayers,
found that 13 states were successful in reducing both population and
spending. However, no single reason explains a rise or fall in spending;
instead, a multitude of factors push and pull expenditures in different
directions."
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