PRISON FELLOWSHIP: financial burdens

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Who Really Pays for Incarceration?

At Prison Fellowship, we often talk about the cost of incarceration to taxpayers. But what about those taxpayers who are paying even more than what shows up on their tax return?

Last September, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, in collaboration with two other organizations, released the report Who Pays?

By Zoe Erler
May 26, 2016
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights | families of prisoners | families of the incarcerated | financial burdens | Forward Together | Research Action Design

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