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NAACP traveling billboard campaign: Focus tax money on schools, not prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

NAACP billboard: Focus tax money on schools, not prisons By Peter Mucha Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer September 21, 2010 A billboard, big as a bus and sporting two symbols of freedom, is touring Philadelphia, urging new thinking about how tax money is spent. "Welcome to Pennsylvania," reads one side of the sign, featuring a cracked Liberty Bell. "Since 2000, state spending on the prison system increased 300 percent while spending on higher education went down." The other side, with the sun setting behind the Statue of Liberty, reads: "Welcome to America: 5% of the world's people, 25% of its prisoners." Near the real Liberty Bell early Monday afternoon, a news conference including U.S. Rep. Bob Brady (D., Pa.) and District Attorney Seth Williams endorsed the idea that the solution to cell-block overpopulation may be to aid schools more, not less...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 22, 2010 (boomark / email).