"State Criminal Justice Spending Skyrockets"
WBUR
December 3, 2009
Read the story from WBUR about CJI/CRJ's newly released report, Priorities and Public Safety: Reentry and the Rising Costs of our Corrections System, written by Len Engel, Senior Policy Analyst, Crime and Justice Institute at Community Resources for Justice.
"State spending on the criminal justice system has grown faster than almost any other state service, including public health and higher education. In 2009, Massachusetts spent more than $1.2 billion on prisons, jails, parole and probation. Corrections spending grew dramatically during recent years and hasn’t faced big cutbacks during the recession."
Read the full story at WBUR.org.
