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by diogenes4 970 days ago
This site claims $129 billion: https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...

Sure, you can adjust per capita. I still think it's a fairly shocking statistic—we certainly don't get that value back except as a jobs program.

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I got ~$80 billion from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (page 14):

https://bjs.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh236/files/media/docu...

One caveat: That spend metric has a standard error of ~$2.6 trillion. With a T.

(See page 25 in same document for the error table.)