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The Justice Department is seeking a 2% budget increase including 7,200 more cages

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Although the total Justice Department budget reflects a proposed increase of only 2%, the portion of the budget directed to prisons and detention represents by far the largest increase -- a 10% boost to $8.3 billion dollars. Officials attribute the increase to a growing workload resulting from a larger prison population. There are currently 211,000 inmates in federal prisons. An expected increase next year will require spending millions on 7,200 additional beds." Justice budget includes 10% hike for prisons, including detainee site By Terry Frieden, CNN Justice Producer February 15, 2011 Washington (CNN) -- The Justice Department Monday issued a 2012 budget requesting funds to "renovate and activate" a prison at Thompson, Illinois, which the administration has identified as the facility that would hold prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, if future transfers to U...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 21, 2011 (boomark / email).