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CA: Invest in Children Not Prisons. Stop Prop. 6

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Invest in Children Not Prisons. Stop Prop. 6 Marian Wright Edelman Posted September 22, 2008 Children's Defense Fund Huffington Post Every election year, politicians talk about getting tough on crime. One easy and politically popular strategy is to show voters you are tough on crime by spending billions of dollars sending people to prison. This requires more prisons to be built to keep the ever expanding incarcerated population behind bars and reduces the money available for investment in health care, education, work force development, and early childhood development to prevent children from going into the Pipeline to Prison. The Children's Defense Fund works nationally to stop "lock 'em up" legislation that favors punitive measures for children and youths over preventive investments...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).