In this first-of-its-kind report, the Prison Policy Initiative finds that the system of mass incarceration costs the government and families of justice-involved people at least $182 billion every year. In this report, they found: provide the significant costs of our globally unprecedented system of mass incarceration and over-criminalization, give the relative importance of the various … Continue reading In a first-of-its-kind report, the Prison Policy Initiative aggregates economic data to offer a big picture view of who pays for and who benefits from mass incarceration.