Money for thought
I was halfway listening to something on T.V. tonight. I think it was on one of the Discovery Channels. What I did catch was that as a country we spend more per prisoner in our incarceration system than we do per student in K-12.
Do you think that if we reversed that spending policy we would lower our prison population? Just a thought.
Here are just three pages on the internet that I found really fast. Do your own research, I would love for someone to prove this information wrong.
In 2006, $68,747,203,000 was spent on corrections.[58] "The average annual operating cost per state inmate in 2001 was $22,650, or $62.05 per day; among facilities operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, it was $22,632 per inmate, or $62.01 per day."[59]
According to a 2007 article in The Washington Post, the Washington D.C. public school district spends $12,979 per student per year.
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