States Spend Almost Four Times More Per Capita on Incarcerating Prisoners Than Educating Students, Studies Say

I choose this article because were talking about education in class and it interesting. An examination of state budgets has revealed that most states, despite spending more money overall on education, are spending three to four times more per capita incarcerating prisoners than they are educating students. According to research gathered from the Department of Justice, Georgia lawmakers, for example,spend about $18,000 a year to house one inmate in a state prison and on education they spend about one-third to put a child in public education.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/14/states-spend-times-incarcerating-educating-studies-say-464156987/