TAILIEUCHUNG - The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration

These educational requirements reflect a need for highly skilled workers who can perform complex, ever-changing tasks. Economists have classified the intensity of five types of tasks across occupations using the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). 15 The taxonomy gauges the degree to which each occupation uses non-routine analytic skills (such as mathematics, used by architects), non-routine interactive skills (directing and planning, used by school teachers), routine cognitive skills (adhering to strict limits or standards, used by machinists), non-routine manual skills (physical coordination, used by fire fighters), and routine manual skills (manipulating objects with fingers rapidly, used by tool and. | .lijleepr _____________________ CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration John Schmitt Kris Warner and Sarika Gupta June 2010 Center for Economic and Policy Research 1611 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 400 Washington . 20009 202-293-5380 CEPR The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration i Contents Executive Incarceration Crime and The High Cost of International Incarceration Rates. 13 Historical Incarceration Rates .13 Working-Age Men in Prison or Custody vs. Jurisdiction Counts of Acknowledgements The authors thank Paige Harrison and Heather C. West of the Bureau of Justice Statistics BJS for assistance with BJS data. CEPR gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Ford Foundation and the Public Welfare Foundation. About the Authors John Schmitt is a Senior Economist Kris Warner is a Program Assistant and Sarika Gupta is a Research Intern at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington . CEPR The High Budgetary Cost of Incarceration 1 Executive Summary The United States currently incarcerates a higher share of its population than any other country in the world. The . incarceration rate 753 per 100 000 people in 2008 is now about 240 percent higher than it was in 1980. We calculate that a reduction by one-half in the incarceration rate of non-violent offenders would lower correctional expenditures by billion per year and return the . to about the same incarceration rate we had in 1993 which was already high by historical standards . The large majority of these savings would accrue to financially squeezed state and local governments amounting to about one-fourth of their annual corrections budgets. As a group state governments could save billion while local governments could save billion. A review of the extensive research on incarceration and crime suggests

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