The $3.4 Trillion Mistake: The Cost of Mass Incarceration and Criminalization
Source:
Communities United, Make the Road New York and Padres & Jóvenes Unidos
2016
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United States
This report details how criminal justice policies in the United States resulted in expenditures of $3.4 trillion over the last three decades that the authors say could have been better spent addressing the root causes of crime and to meet critical community needs. Researchers found that…