Prisons Will Consume 30 Percent Of Justice Department’s Budget By 2020

Prisons Will Consume 30 Percent Of Justice Department’s Budget By 2020: The latest numbers from the Urban Institute add a budgetary reason on top of the human reasons to reform the United States’ massive rates of incarceration: at current trends, spending on prisons will take up 29 percent of the Justice Department’s budget by 2020. Given the possibility of cuts to federal spending from either the [...]/p