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Georgia: Atlanta Journal Constitution investigation: Georgia leads nation in criminal punishment

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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A billion-dollar burden or justice? AJC investigation: Georgia leads nation in criminal punishment By Carrie Teegardin and Bill Rankin? The Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 23, 2010 Georgia taxpayers spend $1 billion a year locking up so many criminal offenders that the state has the fourth-highest incarceration rate in the nation. When it comes to overall criminal punishment, no state outdoes Georgia. Hard-nosed measures approved with wide public support forced a five-fold increase in corrections spending since 1985. A monumental prison construction campaign that quadrupled space over the last four decades seemed like money well spent as record crime rates in the 1990s left Georgians fearful of becoming the next victims of violence. But today, many public figures with strong anti-crime credentials are asking if that expenditure is smart, or even if it?s making Georgians safer...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 25, 2010 (boomark / email).