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Schwarzenegger Seeks Shift From Prisons to Colleges

By Michael Blankenship

SACRAMENTO ? With his state strapped and his legacy looming, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed on Wednesday to greatly reduce the amount of money California spends on its prisons and to funnel that sum to the state?s higher education system instead. Read more... The trend over the past 30 years has been to spend more on punishing people and less on education. Idaho is no exception. Schwarzenegger's statement - ?What does it say about any state that focuses more on prison uniforms than on caps and gowns?? ?It simply is not healthy.? - sums up the situation. It is doubtful that California or any other state can reverse this trend quickly. The vested interests are already giving the governor's proposal the raspberry.  No one wants to appear soft on crime, but the research is without question - simply locking up more people is both expensive and a failure in terms of crime control...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on January 07, 2010 (boomark / email).