Education

Education and Public Safety Policy Brief Justice Policy Institute. August, 2007. "Graduation rates were associated with positive public safety outcomes. Researchers have found that a 5 percent increase in male high school graduation rates would produce an annual savings of almost $5 billion in crime-related expenses."
Current Issues in Correctional Education: A Compilation and Discussion, [PDF] Council of Advancement of Adult Literacy. February, 2004.
Education and Incarceration [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. August, 2003.
Spending More on Prisons than Higher Education [PDF] Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. 2003. (has official and inflation adjusted comparison from FY 1968 to 2004)
Education not Incarceration [PDF] Education Not Incarceration. 2003. (California Coalition of Teachers, Students, Parents and Citizens)
Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African American Men, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. August, 2002. "State spending on prisons grows at 6 times the rate of higher education"
Education vs. Incarceration: A Mississippi case study, [PDF] Grassroots Leadership. May, 2002.
Impact of Educational Achievement of Inmates in the Windham School District on Post-Release Employment, [PDF] Criminal Justice Policy Council (Texas). June, 2000. (Windham District is the Texas prison system)
Educational Achievement of Inmates in the Windham School District [PDF] Criminal Justice Policy Council (Texas). April, 2000. (Windham District is the Texas prison system)
New York State of Mind?: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. December, 1998.
Class Dismissed: Higher Education vs. Corrections During the Wilson Years, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. September, 1998. (California)
U.S. Prison Spending Increases Faster than College Funding 1977-1995 [Website] ABC News. July, 1998. (Interactive state atlas)
Is Maryland's System of Higher Education Suffering Because of Prison Expenditures?, Justice Policy Institute. March, 1998.
Trading Classrooms for Cellblocks: Destructive Policies Eroding DC Communities, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. March, 1997.
From Classrooms to Cellblocks: A National Perspective [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. February, 1997.
From Classrooms to Cell-blocks: How Prison Building Affects Higher Education and African American Enrollment in CA, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. October, 1996. (California)