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Federal education stimulus dollars covering prison costs in Alabama

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this local article, which is headlined "Prisons the biggest recipient of Alabama's education stimulus dollars," a big chunk of federal dollars earmarked for education has been going to prison spending in Alabama. Here are the details: Alabama?s biggest recipient of federal education stimulus dollars thus far is not a local school system or a college: It?s the Department of Corrections, according to a Press-Register analysis. The agency has received $118 million of $1.1 billion in stimulus funding doled out to the state by the U.S. Department of Education since 2009.  The money covered health care costs for 26,000 inmates, and salaries and benefits for about 4,200 corrections officers and other employees for three and a half months, officials said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 19, 2010 (boomark / email).