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New CEPR report on "The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration"

By Douglas A. Berman

I am intrigued and pleased to learn that the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has released here a new report titled "The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration." The full report is available at this link, and here is how CEPR describes its findings: The United States currently incarcerates a higher share of its population than any other country in the world. We calculate that a reduction in incarceration rates just to the level we had in 1993 (which was already high by historical standards) would lower correctional expenditures by $16.9 billion per year, with the large majority of these savings accruing to financially squeezed state and local governments. As a group, state governments could save $7.6 billion, while local governments could save $7...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 10, 2010 (boomark / email).