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Justice Policy Institute: 2010 Department of Justice Budget Likely to Increase Incarceration in U.S.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

2010 Department of Justice Budget Likely to Increase Incarceration in U.S. Overspending in law enforcement, prisons and under-spending in prevention, treatment and communities won?t yield long term improvements, will cause increased costs for states May 13, 2009 WASHINGTON?The President?s Department of Justice (DOJ) budget will likely lead to growing incarceration rates, according to an analysis by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, D.C.-based public policy organization. JPI?s analysis of the budgets released by the Administration late last week points to increases in spending for law enforcement and decreases in juvenile justice expenditures ? what research says is the opposite of what is needed to have a long term impact on public safety and the number of people incarcerated in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).