Tax Season Reflections on the Growing Cost of Prisons
By Katherine Green Robertson Alabama Policy Institute With the Governor’s sign-off, the state’s budgets for both the Education Trust Fund and the General Fund are now set for fiscal year 2015. Of the $1.8 billion budgeted for the General Fund, spending on corrections is the second largest line item, behind only Medicaid, at $394 million … Continued
April 17, 2014