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Some of the spending In the Senate Stimulus Bill

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

$150 million for the Office of the Federal Detention Trustee - (OFDT) is an organization that achieves efficiencies, effectiveness and operational synergies within the detention and incarceration community by fostering interagency cooperation, mutual understanding, accountability and teamwork. $50 million for Salaries and Expenses at the U.S. Marshal's Service $125 milion for Department of Justice "Construction" $75 million for Salaries and Expenses at the FBI $400 million for FBI "Construction" $1 billion for buildings and facilities in the Federal Prison System $300 million for grants to combat violence against women $1.5 billion for Byrne grants $440 million in State and Local law enforcement grants $100 million in State and Local grants for anti-narcotics work $300 million in law enforcement assistance to Indian tribes $100 million in grants for the Office for Victims of Crime $150 million for rural law enforcement $50 million in aid to combat Internet Crimes Against Children $1 billion for the COPS program (hiring new police officers)continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 02, 2009 (boomark / email).