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Real Cost of Prisons Project

  • Organization: The Sentencing Project
  • Date Created: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
  • Submitted: Wednesday, December 28, 2005
  • Attachment(s): LINK
The Real Cost of Prisons Project brings together prison/justice policy activists with political economists to create popular education workshops and materials which explore both the immediate and long-term costs of incarceration on the individual, her/his family, community and the nation. The goals of the Real Cost of Prisons Project are to strengthen and deepen the organizing capacity of grassroots prison/justice activists and to broaden the public's understanding of the economic and social consequences of mass incarceration.