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Economics
Individual and institutional financial costs and impacts
- Only a handful of states have eliminated or severely limited the use of commercial bail bonds (Created: 2022)
- Many people in state prisons grew up facing serious family, housing, economic, and educational challenges (Created: 2022)
- Before incarceration, people in state prisons struggled disproportionately with unemployment and homelessness (Created: 2022)
- Most people in prison have only one option for money transfers (Created: 2021)
- Fees for prison money transfers are unreasonably high (Created: 2021)
- The highest cost of a 15-minute call from a local jail by state (Created: 2019)
- Educational exclusion raises unemployment rates of formerly incarcerated people (Created: 2018)
- It's getting harder for formerly incarcerated people to compete in an increasingly skilled labor market (Created: 2018)
- For formerly incarcerated people looking for jobs, it's worse than the Great Depression (Created: 2018)
- The "prison penalty" in unemployment (Created: 2018)
- When they can find work, formerly incarcerated women of color are often relegated to part-time jobs (Created: 2018)
- Race and gender disparities in unemployment and job type among formerly incarcerated people active in the labor market (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Washington, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Illinois, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in Massachusetts, per person (Created: 2018)
- Annual prison commissary sales in three states (Ill., Mass., Wash.), per person (Created: 2018)
- Changing national priorities: Agricultural employees vs. justice system employees (Created: 2017)
- Justice System Expenditures, 1982-2012 (Created: 2017)
- Justice System Employees, 1982-2012 (Created: 2017)
- Correctional control of women (Created: 2017)
- Making health care unaffordable has many hidden costs (Created: 2017)
- Following the Money of Mass Incarceration (Created: 2017)
- Timeline of probation service fees charged in Massachusetts (Created: 2016)
- Lower income communities have higher probation rates (Created: 2016)
- The profit motive in incarceration: number of people incarcerated under state and federal jurisdiction by facility type (Created: 2016)
- States vary greatly in how they use correctional control (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for women in local jails and non-incarcerated women (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for men unable to meet bail and non-incarcerated men (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of monthly incomes for men in local jails and non-incarcerated men (Created: 2016)
- Distribution of annual incomes for people in local jails unable to meet bail (Created: 2016)
- People in jail are poor, unable to meet bail (Created: 2016)
- Wealth accumulation and incarceration by race & ethnicity (Created: 2016)
- Wealth accumulation and incarceration (Created: 2016)
- Incarcerated people earn substantially less prior to their incarceration than their non-incarcerated counterparts (Created: 2015)
- Annual growth in Securus profits, 2009-2014 (Created: 2015)
- Single call programs steer consumers to high-cost low-commission calls (Created: 2015)
- For families and facilities: It's all about the fees (Created: 2015)
- Price Matters: Video visitation price vs. usage (Created: 2015)
- Normal phone calls haven't cost $1/minute since 1950 (Created: 2014)
- Fees consume 38% of the $1 billion spent each year on calls from correctional facilities (Created: 2013)
- Number of justice system employees, 1982-1999 (Created: 2003)
- Minimum wages in the United States, in Haiti and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (Created: 2003)
- Ohio's corrections budget grew faster than education budget, 1985-2000 (Created: 2003)
- Criminal justice system expenditures (Created: 2003)
- Comparison of size of crime control workforce with farming, forestry and fishing (Created: 2003)
- Daily cost to feed prisoners and the average American (Created: 2003)
