{"id":2705,"date":"2010-05-27T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/cost-of-incarceration-in-lowndes-county.html"},"modified":"2010-05-27T14:56:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:56:49","slug":"cost-of-incarceration-in-lowndes-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/05\/cost-of-incarceration-in-lowndes-county.html","title":{"rendered":"Cost of Incarceration in Lowndes County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what we pay in local or state taxes to lock people up<br \/>\nin Lowndes County, Georgia, although probably it&#8217;s in line with<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/05\/cost-of-incarceration-in-georgia.html\">the high cost of incarceration in Georgia.<\/a><br \/>\nI do know there are a lot of indirect costs,<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/12\/prisoner-re-entry.html\"><br \/>\nincluding this one:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nPrisoners have to be released from prison or the county jail into the same community, and can&#8217;t get a job because they&#8217;re ex-cons, and often not even an apartment. Result? Homeless ex-cons turning to crime.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Female ex-cons in Lowndes County have some places they can turn to for<br \/>\nhousing. Male ex-cons have only the Salvation Army, and they have to leave<br \/>\nthere every morning early.<br \/>\nIn Atlanta they&#8217;ve examined their situation and determined that<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2009\/12\/how-to-reduce-recidivism.html\"><br \/>\nhousing is the most central issue.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nWhich would we rather do? Pay as much per year to send them back to jail<br \/>\nas it would cost to send them to college?<br \/>\nOr find a way to provide housing for them?<\/p>\n<p>\nHow about helping ex-prisoners learn job-hunting skills and job-holding skills?<br \/>\nEmployment is the best preventative for crime.<br \/>\nThere are local organizations ready to work on that, such as<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/01\/chance-changing-homes-and-neighborhoods-challenging-everyone.html\"><br \/>\nCHANCE: Changing Homes and Neighborhoods, Challenging Everyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\nLocal tax dollars need to be spent in a way that benefits<br \/>\nthe entire community, and not just a few.  Maybe we can<br \/>\nafford to do something about getting ex-prisoners a place to live and jobs so they stay<br \/>\nout of crime and improve the local economy.<br \/>\nActually, can we afford not to do that to reduce incarceration expenditures?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know what we pay in local or state taxes to lock people up in Lowndes County, Georgia, although probably it&#8217;s in line with the high cost of incarceration in Georgia. I do know there are a lot of indirect costs, including this one: Prisoners have to be released from prison or the county [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1531,28,1298,8701,1190,8730,727,847,7,2490,75,2489,4574,2712,5733,2580],"class_list":["post-2705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-incarceration","tag-college","tag-cost","tag-crime","tag-georgia","tag-housing","tag-incarceration","tag-jail","tag-jobs","tag-lowndes-county","tag-parole","tag-prison","tag-probation","tag-recidivism","tag-rehabilitation","tag-salvation-army","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}