Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Criminal Law

: The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog

Colorado's prison spending tops all other states

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

DATA GEEK: Colorado's prison spending tops all other states December 11, 2009 Prisons and other programs for criminal offenders consumed a bigger chunk of Colorado?s 2008 government budget than for any other state, according to data the U.S. Census Bureau released Wednesday. The bureau?s annual survey of state government finances found Colorado spent $996 million on corrections programs in 2008, which accounts for 5.1 percent of the state?s general revenue that year. No other state spent more. The second-ranking state for corrections spending was Maryland, which spent $1.4 billion or 4.7 percent of its revenue. On average, states spent 3.3 percent of their revenues on corrections. Colorado was home to 23,274 state and federal prison inmates last year, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).