$1 of 17 GA tax dollars spent on prisons Carrie Teegardin wrote for the AJC 4 April 2010, Georgia prison population, costs on rise Georgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a cost of $1 billion a year. The job of overseeing 60,000 inmates and 150,000 felons on probation consumes 1 of every 17 state dollars. Above owed to Farrah D. Reed, who also commented on Gov. Deal: the bad, prison slave labor competing with free labor: Maybe if our tax dollars were spent on education and rehabilitation we wouldn’t have so many folks locked up in the first place! -jsq Short Link:Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Related
Georgia operates the fifth-largest prison system in the nation, at a cost of $1 billion a year. The job of overseeing 60,000 inmates and 150,000 felons on probation consumes 1 of every 17 state dollars.