U.S. Census Bureau Report Shows Dip in Government Correctional Construction
A U.S. Census Bureau report shows correctional construction declined the most of all other major spending categories over the last decade, from an $8 billion zenith in November 2008 to the current amount of $4.6 billion.




Slowly but surely, criminal justice science is undergoing a shift in modern America. While it’s long been acknowledged that reform is the optimal outcome of incarceration, this principle has yet to be uniformly recognized in the physical forms of adult detention facilities.
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Superior Court judges will begin sending low-level felony offenders to county jail instead of state prison in October, but some say the state’s decision to require local jails to house nonviolent criminals will be done at a cost.