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Tribes Receive $224 Million for Corrections Construction

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Tribes Receive $224 Million for Corrections Construction The Department of Justice is awarding $224 million to tribal communities to fund the renovation and construction of prisons and jails. (11/22/2009) WASHINGTON ? The Department of Justice is awarding $224 million to tribal communities to fund the renovation and construction of prisons and jails. The construction funding, which was announced by Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, is part of more than $236 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and fiscal year 2009 departmental public safety appropriations to criminal justice initiatives in tribal communities throughout the United States. The funding package also includes approximately $12 million as part of the Tribal Youth Program, which supports enhanced tribal efforts to prevent and control delinquency and improve the juvenile justice systems for American Indian and indigenous Alaskan youth...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 04, 2010 (boomark / email).