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Maine and solitary confinement

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Corrections: a growth industry in Maine By Stan Moody Dec 23, 2009 The third-highest budget item for Maine -- right behind human services and education -- is the cost of incarcerating the failures of human services and education. More than $300 million a year is spent on housing and maintaining services for some 4,000 inmates in a program that has been growing at the rate of 9 percent a year. What any Maine business these days wouldn't give for a 9 percent annual growth rate. To put that in context, it works out to about $1,000 annually for every family in Maine, or three times the annual cost of monitoring a residential burglar alarm system. In the tradition of all growth industries, repeat business offers not only job security but also the power to write your own ticket...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 05, 2010 (boomark / email).