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Prison Spending

Bankers Are Practically The Only Ones NOT Going To Jail

Simon McCormack | Posted 02.16.2013 | Crime
Read More: Prison Reform, Video, State Prison Spending, Prison Spending, Prison Spending by State, Fiscal Cliff, Prison Spending by States, Crime News
Simon McCormack

America's prison population has erupted over the last 30 years. However, there is one particular group of individuals who it appears are too important to throw behind bars, no matter how egregious their crimes.

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Tyler Kingkade

How The Drug War Is Bankrupting Public Higher Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 08.28.2012 | College
Read More: Corrections Spending, Drug War, Shadow Conventions 2012, Shadow Conventions, Prison Spending, Majoring in Debt, Higher Education Spending, War on Drugs, Slideexpand, Education Funding, The Drug War, Higher Education Cuts, College News

In 2012, both corrections spending and student debt hit $1 trillion milestones, leading higher education advocates to wonder how prison costs soak up ...

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Private Prison Secrecy

David Shapiro | Posted 07.10.2012 | Business
Read More: Private Prisons, Prisoner Abuse, Prison Spending, Business News
David Shapiro

Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private incarceration company in the world, today convenes its annual shareholder meeting. Participants will pore over profit and revenue figures, but the real question is, should for-profit prisons exist at all?

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Getting Children Ready For School

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 10.12.2011 | Impact
Read More: Juvenile Delinquency, K-12 Schools, Child Care, Unemployment, Prison Spending, Achievement Gap, Debt Deal, Education Cuts, Back to School, Impact News
Marian Wright Edelman

Staying in school and receiving a quality education are the best deterrents to juvenile delinquency. Yet almost half of our states spend on average more than three times as much per prisoner as per public school pupil.

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California Budget Pits Colleges Against Prisons

Newsweek | Pat WingertJune 28, 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: College Prison California Newsweek, Prison Budget California, College Budget California, College Spending, The West, Prison Spending, College News

Faced with a $19 billion budget deficit this spring, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he was taking a cleaver to state health and ...

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Stealing From California's Young People

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Student Fee Hikes, Prison Spending, CSU Board of Trustees, California State University, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oil Severance Tax, Senate Republicans, Oil Tax, Exxonmobile, CSU Chancellor Charles Reed, CSU System, California Republicans, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Pay Cuts, Higher Education, California Budget, Shell Oil, Higher Education Cuts, California State Legislature, Tobacco Tax, Teachers, Nurses, Chico State University, Arnold, California Republican Minority, Assemblyman Alberto Torrico, California Faculty Association, President Paul Zingg, California Prisons, Budget Cuts, California Budget Crisis, Furloughs, Cfa, Csu, ab656, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

By blocking any new revenue streams to fund higher education, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Senate Republican minority are not only taxing California's young people and their families, they are crippling the state's future.

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Report: Prison-Packing Politics A National Disaster

Lecia Shorter | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Campaign Rhetoric, State Budgets, Three-Strike Laws, Clinton, Senator Obama, Prison, Corrections, Prison Spending, Pew Report, Obama, Hillary Clinton, Campaign 2008, Incarcration, Home News
Lecia Shorter

The costs of citizen incarceration and prison spending have skyrocketed and recidivism remains high. At last, policymakers are questioning the wisdom of tough-on-crime campaign rhetoric.

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