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Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief

Loaded on Oct. 31, 2022 by Susie Cagle, Weihua Li, Anastasia Valeeva published in Prison Legal News November, 2022, page 30
Filed under: COVID-19, Cost of Prison Systems. Location: United States of America.

by Anastasia Valeeva, Weihua Li, and Susie Cagle

President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts.

 

(This article originally appeared on themarshallproject.org on September 7, 2022. It is reprinted here ...

 

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