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February 28, 2008
| Jail Biz | Rights, Law |
More than 1% of US adults are behind bars. AP:
For the first time in history, more than one in every 100 American adults is in jail or prison, according to a new report.The report, released Thursday by the Pew Center on the States, said the 50 states spent more than $49 billion on corrections last year, up from less than $11 billion 20 years earlier. The rate of increase for prison costs was six times greater than for higher education spending, the report said.
Money for prisons, but no money for schools.
Is this a great country or what?
Posted by Jonathan at February 28, 2008 10:26 PM
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The prison industrial complex
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