The Modern Prison
This is the inside of the old building at Stateville Penitentiary. Stateville was built as a model of Bentham's Panopiticon.
How much do we spend on police, the courts, and corrections?
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Direct expenditures for criminal justice by component, 1982-97
xxxxxx Police xxxxxxJudicialxxxxx Corrections
1982 $19,022,184,000 $7,770,785,000 $9,048,947,000
1983 $20,648,200,000 $8,620,604,000 $10,411,363,000
1984 $22,685,766,000 $9,463,180,000 $11,793,744,000
1985 $24,399,355,000 $10,628,816,000 $13,534,897,000
1986 $26,254,993,000 $11,485,446,000 $15,759,366,000
1987 $28,767,553,000 $12,555,026,000 $17,548,769,000
1988 $30,960,824,000 $13,970,563,000 $20,299,155,000
1989 $32,794,182,000 $15,588,664,000 $22,566,622,000
1990 $35,923,479,000 $17,356,826,000 $26,153,654,000
1991 $38,971,240,000 $19,298,379,000 $29,297,200,000
1992 $41,326,531,000 $20,988,888,000 $31,461,433,000
1993 $44,036,756,000 $21,558,403,000 $31,946,667,000
1994 $46,004,536,000 $22,601,706,000 $34,864,322,000
1995 $48,644,529,000 $24,471,689,000 $39,752,230,000
1996 $53,007,425,000 $26,157,907,000 $41,028,843,000
1997 $57,753,530,000 $28,528,774,000 $43,511,148,000
Source: Justice Employment and Expenditure Extracts, 1982 - 97,
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More on privatization, including financial reports of private correction companies.
Jerome Miller, one of the nation's foremost authorities on corrections writes about "the American Gulag"
Read more in YES! magazine's special prison issue.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
References on Prisons