Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration

In the United States, 33 states spend upwards of $100,000 per incarcerated youth, but juvenile and adult recidivism rates prove this money isn’t being used to rehabilitate troubled youth, at least not enough. The new report, Sticker Shock: Calculating the Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration, provides estimates of the overall costs resulting from the negative outcomes associated with incarceration, and some of the total cost figures are sure to surprise you.