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Justice Expenditure and Employment in the United States, 1995
Provides selected
data from the Census Bureau's Annual General Finance and Employment Surveys.
Data presented include police protection, judicial and legal services,
and corrections expenditure and employment for Federal, State, and local
governments in 1995 and national trend data for 1980 to 1995. Expenditure
data are provided for fiscal year 1995; employment and payroll data are
for the month of October 1995.
The report compares
justice expenditure to spending for other governmental services, adjusts
the data for inflation, and analyzes trends in justice spending and employment.
It presents expenditure data per capita and number of employees per 10,000
population for each State. It also presents the average monthly earnings
by State and by level of government. Survey methodology and definitions
used are briefly discussed. The data in the report are comparable to those
published in the 1980-95
Justice Expenditure and Employment Extracts.
Highlights include
the following:
- Federal, State, and local governments in the United States spent more than $112 billion
in fiscal year 1995 for criminal and civil justice, an increase of 9% over 1994.
- In 1995 the Nation spent $48.6 billion for police protection, and $39.8 billion for
corrections, including jails, prisons, probation, and parole. The combined activities of
courts, prosecution and legal services, and public defense accounted for $24.5 billion.
- The Federal Government alone spent more than $22 billion on criminal and civil justice in
1995, an increase of 253% since 1985. This included about $5.9 billion for grants to
State and local governments. About $9 billion was spent on police protection and $4.2
billion on corrections.
11/99, NCJ 178235
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