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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Wednesday, April 13, 2011 In The News: Money Cut From Education May Ultimately Be Required For Ineffective Prisons And Their Return Customers At a time when Head-Start and other early childhood programs are facing the budget ax, we learn that... "Since the mid-’80s, annual state prison costs have risen from $10 billion to $52 billion, according to Pew."
Couple that huge expenditure with the apparent lack of effectiveness of our state prisons at reducing recidivism...and there is an argument to be made that if more of those billions were spent on the front end towards education, so much may not be required on the back end towards a system that has a record of failure. Kids are hard to fix once they've become adults!
 Click the image above to access this article at USA Today I wonder how much we spend on our federal prison system? Posted at 10:30 PM Keywords: In The News , Prisons , Rehabilitation , School Finance , Discipline , Character Education 0 Comments |