Critics Take Aim At State And Local Arpa Spending On Prisons And Jails

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Opinion | To Reform Our Prisons, Follow The States’ Lead - The ... While critics on both ends of the political spectrum may be eager to seize on spending they don’t like, experts tracking arpa dollars, like alan berube, interim vice president and director of brookings metro, noted the high degree of flexibility states and localities have with the aid. As governors and state legislatures shape their corrections budgets for the current and upcoming fiscal years, many are struggling to balance major investments in public safety with rising costs and slowing revenues.

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Opinion | It’s Not Just Policing That Needs Reform. Prisons Need It ... How local governments are using hundreds of millions of dollars combined in federal covid relief funds varies considerably from one community to the next, including some controversial proposals,. The american civil liberties union is among those raising questions about federal covid aid from the american rescue plan act going to corrections projects. state and local governments that directed federal covid relief funding toward jail and prison costs are under fire from civil rights advocates. As governors and state legislatures shape their corrections budgets for the current and upcoming fiscal years, many are struggling to balance major investments in public safety with rising costs and slowing revenues. The concern stems from an aclu letter calling on the treasury to investigate local entities that plan to use funding from the american rescue plan act on expanding or establishing jails.

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Report: State Spending Millions Each Day On Prisons As governors and state legislatures shape their corrections budgets for the current and upcoming fiscal years, many are struggling to balance major investments in public safety with rising costs and slowing revenues. The concern stems from an aclu letter calling on the treasury to investigate local entities that plan to use funding from the american rescue plan act on expanding or establishing jails. The aclu cites subsequent misappropriation of arpa funds in alabama, arizona, arkansas, iowa, indiana, louisiana, minnesota, missouri, and oklahoma to illegally build and expand prisons and jails. As states plan how they’ll spend the $25 billion remaining in federal covid relief funds, some also are facing criticism and renewed scrutiny over how they allocated money already received from the american rescue plan act. So even though states might have increased spending on public safety in recent years, experts expect the corrections budgets for jails and prisons to level off, according to brian sigritz, the director of state fiscal studies for the national association of state budget officers. Local critics have raised concerns that commissioners and other governments taking this route are playing a "shell game" at worst, and not acting in the spirit of the law at best.

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