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NY: Bad Choices: Why cut public colleges while propping up unnecessary prisons?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Bad Choices: Why cut public colleges while propping up unnecessary prisons? Posted by Syracuse Post-Standard Editorial Board September 16, 2008 Editorial New York state has cut projected funding for its public universities three times this year. But it can't seem to find a way to eliminate its spending on unnecessary prisons. Why? It's part economics, part pure politics. And it all adds up to bad policy. A blue ribbon commission on higher education reported in June that the State University of New York -- the largest state university system in the country -- has been losing ground over the past 20 years to comparable systems in other states. The commission called for increased funding to hire 2,000 more faculty members, including 250 "eminent scholars," over the next five years...continue to full post

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