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Rifles, Tasers and Jails: How Cities and States Spent Billions of COVID-19 Relief

President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2022/09/07/how-federal-covid-relief-flows-to-the-criminal-justice-system

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How ARPA Turned into Funding for Police, Prisons and Courts

President Biden’s signature American Rescue Plan Act gave local governments $350 billion to recover from COVID-19. They spent much of it on police, prisons and the courts.

The Marshall Project