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"High Cost of Crime" by Charles M. Blow

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"By their estimates, more than 18,000 homicides that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded in 2007 alone will cost us roughly $300 billion. That?s about as much as we?ve spent over nine years fighting the war in Afghanistan. That?s more than the 2010 federal budget for the Departments of Education, Justice, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor and Homeland Security combined. Does anyone else see a problem here?" October 8, 2010 High Cost of Crime By CHARLES M. BLOW NY Times When times get hard and talk turns to spending and budgets, there is one area that gets short shrift: the cost of crime and our enormous criminal justice system. For instance, how much do you think a single murder costs society? According to researchers at Iowa State University, it is a whopping $17...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on October 09, 2010 (boomark / email).