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Obama budget includes $527.5M for Justice Dept. Justice Dept. projects increase of 7000 more prisoners by 2011

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

President Obama unveiled a multitrillion-dollar spending plan that would boost the deficit to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion. 2011 budget gives federal prisons $528M Proposed increases in the 2011 budget for Justice Department programs: Feb 4-2010 By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON ? 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. The boost would bring the total Bureau of Prisons budget to $6...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 04, 2010 (boomark / email).