the blog of LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange
Elizabeth Pran asks
Who Gets More Tax Dollars... Prisoners or School Children?
Of course, being Fox News, it advocates cutting prison
costs by reducing air conditioning for prisoners.
The real problem is the War on Drugs and Three Strikes.
She does at last manage to mention in passing "alternative programs
for non-violent offenders."
Yes, like not locking up people for minor drug offenses in the first place!
And indeed, educating students today would cost less than locking them up later.
Meanwhile, privatizing prisons does nothing to solve these problems; it just lines some corporation's pockets with tax money.
-jsq
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