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Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey
Wasting Money, Wasting Lives: Calculating the Hidden Costs of Incarceration in New Jersey
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 17, 2008
ANNOTATION: The direct and indirect costs of incarceration in New Jersey are determined. This report contains these sections: executive summary; introduction; portrait of incarceration in N.J.; costs of incarceration in N.J.; methodology; hidden costs -- incarceration and lost child support; hidden costs -- children with incarcerated parents; post-incarceration costs -- employment and wages; NJ Comprehensive Drug Reform Act; the case of Newark; and conclusion. An appendix shows how to calculate incarceration costs. NJ spends $330 million a year to incarcerate drug law violators. Nearly 50% of all prisoners are sentenced for mostly nonviolent drug offenses.
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