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Article on new Pew Report: "Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Cost of Jail to America?s Working Population By Annie Lowrey 9/29/10 The Washington Independent This week, the Pew?s Economic Mobility Project is up with an astonishing report ("Collateral Costs: Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility" by Bruce Western and Becky Pettit- http://www.economicmobility.org/reports_and_research/other/other?id=0015)on the financial damage incarceration does to inmates and the broader economic opportunity locked up in America?s prisons. The United States currently jails one in every 100 adults ? the highest rate in the world. That costs one in every 15 state general fund dollars, more than $50 billion a year. Jail isn?t just costly to the taxpayer. It?s also costly to the inmate. Time in jail reduces an inmate?s earnings 40 percent, on average...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).