Prison and The Economy
- The Costs of Confinement Why Good Juvenile Justice Policies Make Good Fiscal Sense, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. May, 2009. (Cost of Confinement shows that states spend billions to imprison youth in secure facilities, but could save money, preserve public safety, and improve life outcomes for individual youth by redirecting the money to community-based alternatives.)
- Fact Sheet on FY2010 Department of Justice Budget [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. May, 2009. (The Factsheet on 2010 Department of Justice Budget finds that the 2010 DOJ budget directs more money to law enforcement than prevention with the likely long-term outcome being increased arrests, incarceration, and money spent on corrections.)
- Pruning Prisons How Cutting Corrections Can Save Money and Protect Public Safety, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. May, 2009. (The United States spends spend billions to incarcerate people in prisons and jails with little impact on public safety, but redirecting funds to community-based alternatives will decrease prison populations, save money, and preserve public safety.)
- One in 31: The Long Reach of American Corrections, [PDF] The Pew Center on the States. March, 2009. "For eight geographically diverse states [...] 88% of the increase in corrections spending was directed towards prisons, which now consume nearly nine out of every ten state corrections dollars."
- The State of Sentencing 2008 Developments in Policy and Practice, [PDF] Sentencing Project. February, 2009. "A nationwide budget crisis coupled with widespread prison overcrowding has led many states to address critical challenges in the areas such as sentencing, drug policy, parole revocation, racial justice, disenfranchisement, juvenile justice, and education."
- Impacts of Jail Expansion in New York State: A Hidden Burden, [PDF] Center for Constitutional Rights. May, 2007. "The growth in the number of people held in jail has not been caused by an increase in crime, as index crime reports decreased by 30 percent in the last decade in upstate and suburban New York overall."(Construction of new prisons in New York poses a financial, employment and environmental burden on communities.)
- Saving Futures, Saving Dollars The Impact of Education on Crime Reduction and Earnings, [PDF] Alliance for Excellent Education. September, 2006. "[A]bout 75 percent of America's state prison inmates,almost 59 percent of federal inmates, and 69 percent of jail inmates did not complete high school."
- Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States, 2003 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. April, 2006.
- Offender Work Report, 2004 [PDF] Washington State Jail Industries Board. October, 2005. "Work within correctional facilities totaled 2,674,877 labor hours in 2004. Jails reported 113,560 labor hours performed on behalf of not-for-profit community organizations..."
- Protecting the Future: Moderating West Virginia's Budget Crisis, Grassroots Leadership. February, 2005.
- Offender Work Report, 2002 [PDF] Washington State Jail Industries Board. 2005.
- Changing Fortunes or Changing Attitudes? Sentencing and Corrections Reforms in 2003, [PDF] Vera Institute of Justice. August, 2004.
- State Prison Expenditures, 2001 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. June, 2004.
- Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States, 2001 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. May, 2004.
- Locked Up: Corrections Policy in New Hampshire Paper 2: Options for Reducing the Prison Population and the Cost of Incarceration, [PDF] New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies. February, 2004.
- Offender Work Report, 2003 [PDF] Washington State Jail Industries Board. 2004.
- 2002 State Expenditure Report [PDF] National Association of State Budget Officers. November, 2003.
- Smart On Crime: Positive Trends in State-Level Sentencing and Corrections Policy, [PDF] Families Against Mandatory Minimums. November, 2003.
- Ohio's Priorities? Prison Policy Initiative. September, 2003. (charts of racial disparities in OH incarceration, and how much money is spent on education vs. prisons)
- Dollars, Sentences and Long-Term Public Safety Managing a Fiscal Crisis with a Goal of Long-Term Public Safety, [PDF] Middle Ground Prison Reform. September, 2003. (Arizona sentencing policy recommendations)
- Upstate New York's Population Plateau: The Third-Slowest Growing 'State', [PDF] Brookings Institution. August, 2003. "Nearly 30 percent of new residents in Upstate New York in the 1990s were prisoners."
- Dollars and Sentences: Legislators' Views on Prisons, Punishment, and the Budget Crisis, [PDF] Vera Institute of Justice. July, 2003.
- EPA helps prisons get up to speed on environmental compliance Environmental Protection Agency. June, 2003.
- Drug Policies in the State of Michigan: Economic Effects, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. May, 2003.
- Borrowing Against the Future: The Impact of Prison Expansion on Arizona Families, Schools and Communities, [PDF] Grassroots Leadership and Arizona Advocacy Network. April, 2003.
- Cutting Correctly in Maryland [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. February, 2003. (lowering prison population will ease budget crisis)
- Incarceration and Correctional Spending in Colorado A Legislator's Handbook on Criminal Justice Policy, 2003, [PDF] Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition. February, 2003.
- Big Prisons, Small Towns: Prison Economics in Small Rural America, [PDF] Sentencing Project. February, 2003.
- Seeking Balance: Reducing Prison Costs in Times of Austerity, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. February, 2003.
- Cutting Correctly, One Year Later: State Budget Crisis and Corrections Reform, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. January, 2003.
- The economic impacts of the prison development boom on persistently poor rural places, [PDF] Farrigan and Glasmeier. 2003.
- Community Corrections in Ohio: Cost Savings and Program Effectiveness, Justice Policy Institute and Policy Matters Ohio. December, 2002. (Ohio has realized considerable cost savings by using community corrections programs instead of prison)
- Building a prison economy in rural America Tracy Huling. October, 2002.
- Blueprint for Cost-Effective Pretrial Detention, Sentencing, and Corrections Systems, [PDF] American Bar Association. August, 2002.
- State Expenditure Report, 2001 [PDF] National Association of State Budget Officers. July, 2002. (See chapter 5)
- Cutting Correctly: New Prison Policies for Times of Fiscal Crisis, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. February, 2002.
- Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States, 1999 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. February, 2002. "The extracts present public expenditure and employment data pertaining to justice activities in the United States, including police, judicial and legal services, and correctional activities."
- State Sentencing and Corrections Policy in an Era of Fiscal Restraint [PDF] Sentencing Project. February, 2002.
- Prison Expansion in a Time of Austerity: An Analysis of the Governor's Proposed New Prison in Delano, Justice Policy Institute. January, 2002. (California)
- Offender Work Report, 2001 [PDF] Washington State Jail Industries Board. 2002.
- Locked Up: Corrections Policy in New Hampshire Paper 1: The Fiscal Consequences of Incarceration Policies, 1981 to 2001, [PDF] New Hampshire Center for Public Policy Studies. September, 2001.
- Offender Work Report, 2000 [PDF] Washington State Jail Industries Board. 2001.
- Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States, 1995 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. November, 1999.
- Regulating the American Labor Market: The Role of the Prison Industrial Complex, [PDF] David Ladipo. September, 1999.
- State Prison Expenditures, 1996 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. August, 1999. "presents comparative data on the cost of operating the Nation's State prisons"
- Prisons as a Growth Industry in Rural America: An Exploratory Discussion of the Effects on Young African American Men in the Inner Cities, Tracy Huling, consultant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. April, 1999.
- Cost Savings in State Corrections: Medical treatment in the community for very ill offenders., Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission. December, 1998. (it's an MSWord file)
- The Prison Industrial Complex Eric Schlosser, Atlantic Monthly. December, 1998.
- Truth In Sentencing: Availability of Federal Grants Influenced Laws in Some States, [PDF] General Accounting Office. February, 1998.
- Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts, 1992 [PDF] Bureau of Justice Statistics. January, 1997.
- Rural Prisons: An Update [PDF] Calvin Beale, Department of Agriculture, Rural Development Perspectives. February, 1996. "nonmetro counties continued to acquire prisons at a rate dramatically out of proportion to the percentage of the Nation's population that lives in such areas."
- Federal and State Prisons: Inmate Populations, Costs, and Projection Models, 1996, [PDF] General Accounting Office. 1996.
- Prison as Industry [PDF] New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice. 1994.
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