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Does the stimulus bill allow further prison growth in incarceration nation?

By Douglas A. Berman

Over at TalkLeft in this effective post, Jeralyn identifies roughly $4 billion in the passed version of federal the stimulus bill which she calls "grants to law enforcement for lock em up programs."   Though within the context of the the huge spending bill, $4 billion might not seem like a lot of money, but I think it amounts to more than 20 times the amount of money that Congress has spent on the re-entray programs related to the Second Chance Act. Just another telling statistic for another notable day in incarceration nation.

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 14, 2009 (boomark / email).