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September 13, 2007

California will soon spend more on prisons than higher education

Prisons' budget to trump colleges' / No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding

As the costs for fixing the state's troubled corrections system rocket higher, California is headed for a dubious milestone -- for the first time the state will spend more on incarcerating inmates than on educating students in its public universities.

Based on current spending trends, California's prison budget will overtake spending on the state's universities in five years. No other big state in the country spends close to as much on its prisons compared with universities.

But California has all but guaranteed that prisons will eat up an increasingly large share of taxpayer money because of chronic failures in a system that the state is now planning to expand.

Interesting

Posted by TY at September 13, 2007 3:13 PM

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