State Corrections Expenditures, FY 1982-2010
In December 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics published a bulletin reporting that between 1982 and 2001, total state corrections expenditures increased each year, rising from $15.0 billion to $53.5 billion in real dollars. Between 2002 and 2010, expenditures fluctuated between $53.4 billion and $48.4 billion. Preliminary data from the Census BureauÂ’s Annual Survey of State Government Finances indicated that states spent $48.5 billion on corrections in 2010, a decline of 5.6% since 2009. Corrections expenditures fund community supervision, confinement, and rehabilitation of adults . . .
