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Police, judiciary costs rising as well as prisons

This blog focuses a great deal on prison costs, but the chart below from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that costs for police and the judiciary have also been escalating over the past 25 years:Here's a link to the data underlying the chart. There's a lot of inflation represented in these numbers; i.e., the cost per conviction is rising. By contrast, the curve of additional felony convictions over the same period was increasing, but much less steep.

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).