Correction agencies’ budgets soaring

Exceeds most other Mass. offices, study says

By Jonathan Saltzman

Globe Staff / December 3, 2009

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Spending on correction agencies in Massachusetts has exploded in the past decade despite only a modest increase in the number of people incarcerated and now accounts for a bigger chunk of the state budget than each of the departments that oversee higher education, social services, and public health, according to a new study. (Full article: 1123 words)