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PA: "The corrections Rendell's budget needs" 2,000 more cages proposed in Rendell's budget

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The corrections Rendell's budget needs BY PROPOSING spending increases on education, medical assistance, unemployment and health insurance for children, and including almost no new programs, Gov. Rendell's final budget reflects the sobering realities of a lingering recession. Still, his budget does include a spending increase that must have been embedded as a trick or joke, maybe as payback for having to deal all these years with a recalcitrant Legislature. It's the only logical explanation for his announcement that in these dire times, we're making it a priority to spend more money on . . . prisons. In his budget address, Rendell called for an increase of $137 million for the Department of Corrections, about 7 percent. Of that, $13 million will be spent on providing 2,000 more beds in new housing units to deal with overcrowding...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 15, 2010 (boomark / email).