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TELL US: How would you prefer your tax dollars be spent — funding more prisons or funding programs to help individuals?
Read full article: TELL US: How would you prefer your tax dollars be spent — funding more prisons or funding programs to help individuals?According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, our country spends $81 billion a year on mass incarceration. These dollars go to staffing the jails and meeting the basic needs of the more than two million Americans incarcerated. But when they leave prison or jail and go back to society, the support systems designed to help them is complicated. Most programs to help with reentry into the outside world come from non-profit organizations, or ones that have small budgets.