Footing the bill: Causes and budgetary consequences of state spending on corrections

Do Prisons Make Us Safer?: The Benefits and Costs of the Prison Boom

Volumn 9781610444651, Issue , 2009, Pages 207-238

  Ellwood, John W ^a   Guetzkow, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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