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FL: Money for prisons, cuts for schools

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Florida Times-Union May 1, 2008 Money for prisons, cuts for schools By RON LITTLEPAGE The Times-Union Millions of dollars for prisons, sure. -------------------------------------------------- Money for schools, not so much. The lock-'em-up Florida Legislature is set to approve a budget that includes $305 million to build three new prisons. At the same time, spending for public schools would be cut by $332 million. Hello. It's cheaper to educate the state's children - which leads to a good job and a stable life - than it is to put a criminal behind bars. Apparently, that message hasn't sunk in with the dunderheads in Tallahassee. This isn't a decrease in hoped for spending, which is sometimes the case in budgetary sleight of hand...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 01, 2008 (boomark / email).