Stone Garden Economics

Population counts of adults on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole in the United States have been rising steadily during the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 2000s. But average taxpayer cost per inmate has steadily fallen from 1982 to 2005. Nonetheless, prison is expensive and if other advanced, industrialized countries can manage incarceration rates one-tenths that of United States, surely so can the U.S. . . . → Read More: A Dollar a Day: The Economics of Prisons