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CT: Education Falls Below Prisons In State Budget

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Education Falls Below Prisons In State Budget By Julie Wernau, The Day Published on 2/29/2008 Connecticut is one of four states in the nation spending more money on its prison system than on higher education, according to a Pew Charitable Trusts study released Thursday. The study, ?One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008,? gets its name from the number of adult Americans currently incarcerated. In Connecticut, taxpayers pay $1.03 toward prisons for every $1 spent on higher education. In the Northeast as a whole, from 1987 until the present, inflation-adjusted spending on higher education dropped 5.5 percent while prison spending rose 61 percent, according to the Pew findings. ?We didn't just wake up this morning and find ourselves here,? said Adam Gelb, project director for Pew's Public Safety Performance project...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).