A new federal report reveals that state and local governments have increased spending on prisons and jails at three times the rate they’ve increased spending on grade-school education in the last three decades.
The analysis used data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics, US Census Bureau, and other sources to compare the changes in spending between 1979-1980 and 2012-2013.
Overall, spending on public elementary and secondary school education increased by 107%, while public spending on corrections increased by 324%.
Among individual states, spending increases on corrections varied read more >>>
Source:: BusinessInsider.Com