San Francisco Chronicle: Prisons’ budget to trump colleges’: No other big state spends as much to incarcerate compared with higher education funding
Inmates sleep in three-high bunks in a gymnasium due to o… Spending gap between prisons and higher education narrows…
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.
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