%T Skewed priorities: comparing the growth of prison spending with police spending
%A Andrew Bushnell



%I Institute of Public Affairs
%D 2019

%K Prisons, %K Prison administration, %K Criminal justice, %K Police, %K Government expenditure, %K Corrections



%U https://apo.org.au/node/240451

%X Australia has seen rapid, unsustainable growth in its incarceration rate. Over the past ten years, the proportion of Australian residents who are incarcerated has risen by 30 percent. The purpose of this paper is to show what this increase means in real terms. Every extra dollar committed to incarceration is a dollar that might have been spent elsewhere in the criminal justice system.
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