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Justice Policy Institute: Budget Wrongly Invests in Policing and Prisons Not Prevention and Communities

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Justice Policy Institute: Budget Wrongly Invests in Policing and Prisons Not Prevention and Communities Justice advocates disturbed by proposed $28 billion for expensive, ineffective and unfair policies WASHINGTON, D.C. ? The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) released a factsheet today criticizing choices made in the Obama Administration?s proposed Fiscal Year 2012 Department of Justice budget. The figure set at $28.2 billion increases funding for COPS (Community Oriented Policing Services), proposes an 11 percent increase from FY2010 in spending on the federal prison system and slashes funding for juvenile justice programming dedicated to providing opportunities for positive life outcomes for youth involved in the justice system. Research included in the factsheet also shows that the present funding structure is set up to build on America?s historically high 2...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 17, 2011 (boomark / email).