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| 1 in 24 Bay State adults in the CJ System |
| By Laura Crimaldi - Boston Herald |
| Published: 03/02/2009 |
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Boston, MA - An astonishing one in 24 Bay State adults were either behind bars or under community supervision at the end of 2007, costing taxpayers $1.25 billion, according to a national study published today. The report, prepared by the Pew Center on the States, ranked Massachusetts fifth in the country in terms of the number of adults in prison or jail or under the supervision of probation or parole. The study said that $1.25 billion was spent on corrections at the state and federal level in 2007 statewide. “In any year, spending $1.25 billion dollars on corrections is stunning. In a fiscal crisis, this kind of spending is unacceptably foolish. If finances is what finally moves the state to revamp its correctional policies, so be it,” said Leslie Walker, executive director of Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services. The Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, which oversees the state’s prisons and parole system, could not immediately provide comment on the study. State workers are not required to come into work today until noon. The state with the highest number of adults involved with the correction system was Georgia, where one in 13 adults or 562,763 people were in the penal system in 2007, the Pew study said. There were 206,241 people involved in the penal system in Massachusetts. The state ranks even higher when it comes to parolees and probationers living in the community. Massachusetts had the third highest rate of community supervision with 1 in 28 adults or 179,854 people answering to parole and probation officers at the state and federal level. Parole is a more cost-effective way of monitoring offenders, the study said. It costs $130.16 to incarcerate an adult for one day. That same figure pays for 18 days of parole supervision in the community, the report said.Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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