"Correction agencies’ budgets soaring"
Boston Globe
December 3, 2009
Read an article in today's Boston Globe about CJI/CRJ's newly released report, Priorities and Public Safety: Reentry and the Rising Costs of our Corrections System, written by Len Engel, Senior Policy Analyst, Crime and Justice Institute at Community Resources for Justice.
"Spending on correction agencies in Massachusetts has exploded in the past decade despite only a modest increase in the number of people incarcerated and now accounts for a bigger chunk of the state budget than each of the departments that oversee higher education, social services, and public health, according to a new study."
Read the full article in the Boston Globe.
