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The Growth & Increasing Cost of the Federal Prison System: Drivers and Potential Solutions
The Growth & Increasing Cost of the Federal Prison System: Drivers and Potential Solutions
Publication year:
2012
| Cataloged on:
Feb. 12, 2013
ANNOTATION: This publication looks at the dramatic growth in the inmate population of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons (BOP) and provides “options for stemming future growth that are consistent with public safety goals: (p. 1). Topics discussed include: BOP projection of continued growth; incarceration in federal prisons is expensive—on average $26,000 per year per inmate compared to probation supervision at $3400 per offender in the community; BOP growth creating increased opportunity costs—an increase of 4.2% from FY2012 totally 30% of the Department of Justice’s budget; the main drivers of growth being the front-end decisions about who goes to prison and for how long; drug offenders making up half of the BOP population; annual admission growth of 15% due to supervision violations; front-end changes directly containing future growth; back-end changes that alleviate the pressure; the federal system needing to learn from the states; and the BOP’s moving forward.
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