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Hidden costs of incarceration

The Wall Street Journal has a piece today focusing on the "hidden" costs of incarceration ("Communities pay for high prison rate," July 10) defined asfinancial burdens that communities are often left to manage. For every person who goes to jail, businesses lose either a potential employee or customer. Inmates' children often depend on extended families, rather than a parent, to raise them. With only so many government resources to go around, churches, volunteer programs and other groups must often step in to help.Uncounted costs identified by the Journal include money families spend to care for kids who're left behind, social services for children and spouses, and large numbers of "missing" young men between 18 and 35, particularly in Hispanic and African American neighborhoods...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).