The Real Cost of Financing and Siting Prisons

Photo: Herman Krieger

This workshop is a political/economic analysis of the direct and indirect costs of the financing and siting of prisons, including:

• historical overview of prison financing and siting
• past and current financing schemes
• implications and consequences of money tranfer from urban to rural communities
• direct and indirect costs of rural siting to incarcreated individuals, their families, and their communities
• implications for rural communities in which prisons are located
• implications for sentencing and parole reform and immigration law
• prisons as "economic development"
• current campaigns to stop new prisons

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