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States slashing prison costs, closing units

At least 23 states cut prison spending in their most recent legislative session, reports Stateline.org:The national recession is taking its toll on what had been one of the fastest-growing areas of state government spending: prisons. Even though state corrections budgets have ballooned in the past two decades amid a surging U.S. prison population, at least 23 states slashed funding for prisons this year, according to a new survey by the nonpartisan Vera Institute of Justice, a research organization based in New York. Thirty-three states responded to the survey, paid for by The Pew Charitable Trusts, which also funds Stateline.org.Six states ? Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and Washington ? cut funding for corrections by more than 10 percent from last year?s levels, according to the study...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).