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Pew Report Documents Collateral Costs of Incarceration on Offenders, Families

By Shari Allison

A press release from the Pew Center on the States says:Washington, D.C. - 09/28/2010 - Incarceration reduces former inmates? earnings by 40 percent and limits their future economic mobility, according to a new Pew report, Collateral Costs: Incarceration?s Effect on Economic Mobility. This is a growing challenge now that 1 in every 28 children in America has a parent behind bars, up from 1 in 125 just 25 years ago.?People who break the law need to be held accountable and pay their debt to society,? said Adam Gelb, director of the Public Safety Performance Project of the Pew Center on the States. ?At the same time, the collateral costs of locking up 2.3 million people are piling higher and higher. Corrections is the second fastest growing state budget category, and state leaders from both parties are now finding that there are research-based strategies for low-risk offenders that can reduce crime at far less cost than prison...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tenth Circuit Blog on September 29, 2010 (boomark / email).