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MA: Higher education shouldn't take a back seat to prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Higher education shouldn't take a back seat to prisons By Daily Hampshire Gazette Created 09/15/2008 Sen. Stan Rosenberg is right in being outraged by how the state Legislature is not prioritizing funding for public higher education (Guest Column, Sept. 10). While he compares the University of Connecticut and University of Massachusetts systems, I offer another comparison: the University of Massachusetts system and the bloated, overpriced, ineffective Massachusetts Department of Correction. In 2004, the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation first document that our legislators had voted in favor of spending more on prisons and jails than on its 29 colleges and universities. That year, the percentage of the DOC budget devoted to labor costs was 73 percent, the second highest in the nation...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 15, 2008 (boomark / email).