Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

IN EPIC FISCAL STORM, NEW STRATEGIES RISE

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"There's an oft-neglected candidate: corrections. Because of politically motivated mandatory sentencing legislation, prisoner rolls have been growing rapidly, reaching world-leading shares of the total population. Complains Maricopa County, Ariz., Manager David Smith: "We have 40,000 felony cases yearly and corrections costs us $819 million! We built a very large big new jail, and it's full again. We're going broke slowly with this criminal justice system." " IN EPIC FISCAL STORM, NEW STRATEGIES RISE November 30, 2008 By Neal Peirce WASHINGTON -- The recession is driving America's city governments into an epic fiscal storm. Unlike earlier downturns, all three big revenue sources -- income, property and sales taxes -- are falling together...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).