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GAO Reports Available: Federal and State Prisons
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
by Julia Lutsky
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 18
Federal and State Prisons: "Inmate Populations, Costs and Projection Models," November 1996, GAO/GGD-97-15
Filed under:
Reviews,
Crime/Demographics,
Statistics/Trends,
Overcrowding.
Location:
United States of America.
Private and Public Prisons: "Studies Comparing Operational Costs and/or Quality of Service," August 1996, GAO/GGD-96-158
Reflecting both the relatively recent "get tough on crime" and the age-old theme of corporate profit there are two new GAO reports, ...
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