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Noting big (and wasteful?) budget growth in federal prison spending

By Douglas A. Berman

Following up on an issue I spotlighted in this recent post (which has generated lots of interesting comments), today this article in USA Today takes a look at the Justice Department's proposed 2011 budget numbers. This piece is headlined "2011 budget gives federal prisons $528M," and here are some highlights: As states cut their budgets by closing prisons and diverting some offenders to probation and treatment programs, the federal government is proposing to dramatically ramp up its detention operations. The Obama administration's $3.8 trillion 2011 budget proposal calls for a $527.5 million infusion for the federal Bureau of Prisons and judicial security ? $227 million more than the proposed increase to Justice's national security program...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).