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NC: Education and Prison/Jail Spending

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Education budgets outweigh prisons Catherine Pritchard Fayetteville Observer Q: With the state so strapped for cash for the schools, I would like to know how much do we actually pay for our prison systems as compared to what we pay for our schooling? J.S., Fayetteville A: Well, it all depends on who you mean by ?we? and what you mean by ?how much,? among other things. After all, public schools get funding at the federal, state and local level. And there are federal prisons, state prisons and county jails (where, we should point out, many of the inmates are awaiting trial and have not been convicted of a crime). And any numbers we provide will inevitably include funds that are not going directly to what might be considered ?prisons? or ?schools...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 09, 2009 (boomark / email).