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Wisconsin spends 12 percent more on prisons than national average
Only 11 states spend more per capita
Wisconsin prisons are costing big dollars to taxpayers.
That comes from a new analysis by the Wisconsin Budget Project, a left-leaning think tank. The group’s new study finds Wisconsin state and local governments spent $1.5 billion on corrections in 2013 – 12 percent more than the per capita national average.
The study also finds that spending on prisons has been increasing in Wisconsin, while spending on school districts and the UW system has been shrinking by double-digit percentages over the last several years.
In order to curtail the growth in prison spending, the group recommends, among other things, more treatment for drug and alcohol abuse rather than locking up abusers for minor crimes.
Only 11 states spend more per capita on prisons than Wisconsin.
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