Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid

Prison Spending Outpaces All but Medicaid 

One in every 31 adults, or 7.3 million Americans, is in prison, on parole or probation, at a cost to the states of $47 billion in 2008, according to a new study.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/us/03prison.html?_r=WRH