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Justice Policy Institute: Fact Sheet on The Obama Administration?s 2011 Budget: More Policing, Prisons, and Punitive Policies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Fact Sheet on The Obama Administration?s 2011 Budget: More Policing, Prisons, and Punitive Policies 02-17-10 Author(s): Justice Policy Institute Topic(s): Public Safety, Juvenile Justice, Adult Corrections, Books vs. Bars, Drug Policy The President?s proposed FY2011 Department of Justice (DOJ) budget asks for $29.2 billion. This is on top of $4 billion provided to DOJ through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), much of which will continue to fund activities through 2011 and beyond. Although the budget has some specific allocations for juvenile justice that it had removed last year, it still reduces spending on juvenile justice programs, while allocating hundreds of millions to hire or retain police officers through the Byrne Justice Assistance Grants or Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and increasing federal prison spending...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 22, 2010 (boomark / email).