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"At least 23 states spend less on prisons"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this effective new piece at Stateline.org.  Here are a few excerpts that spotlight the continued impact of both lean budgets and political dynamics on the operation of modern criminal justice systems: 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.... 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 Sentencing Law and Policy on August 11, 2009 (boomark / email).