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Corrections second behind Medicaid in sources of state budget growth

A new report (pdf) by the Vera Institute says 22 states have cut funding for corrections because of the current economic crisis. Here's the abstract:States across the United States are facing the worst fiscal crisis in years. All but two states are dealing with budget deficits, and spending is being cut across the board. Second only to Medicaid, corrections has become the fastest growing general fund expenditure in the United States. Considered off limits for many years, corrections budgets are now subject to these same cuts. Based on a survey of enacted FY2010 state budgets and other recent sentencing and corrections legislation, this new report from Vera?s Center on Sentencing and Corrections found that at least 22 states have reversed the trend of recent decades and cut funding for corrections...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on July 30, 2009 (boomark / email).