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MA: Prison & Jail Budgets Soar Exeeding Higher Ed, Health, Social Services. People in prisons surged by 300% and jails about 320%.

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"....It also found that staffing expenditures soared 56 percent from 1995 to 2003, to $312 million, and that much of the increase stemmed from overtime costs and a contract with the union that represents correction officers." Correction agencies? budgets soaring Exceeds most other Mass. offices, study says By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / December 3, 2009 Spending on correction agencies in Massachusetts has exploded in the past decade despite only a modest increase in the number of people incarcerated and now accounts for a bigger chunk of the state budget than each of the departments that oversee higher education, social services, and public health, according to a new study. The study by the Boston Foundation says the more than $1.2 billion spent this year on correction stems largely from a decades-old, lock-?em-up approach that has put about 11,000 people in state prisons and about 14,000 people in county jails, resulting in mammoth labor and facility costs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 03, 2009 (boomark / email).