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PA: Where's the outrage over prison costs?

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Where's the outrage over prison costs? Sunday, October 31, 2010 Patriot-News Op-Ed Patriot-News Op-Ed By Eric Epstein An old and misguided political adage claimed that Democrats built schools and Republicans built prisons. Wrong. Society creates conditions for schools to fail and prisons to thrive, but taxpayers underwrite the unsatisfactory results. Education funding remains a radioactive public policy issue yet the public and politicians are strangely silent and disconnected from the perennial ?corrections? hemorrhage. As Pennsylvania continues to grow prisons, the national trend is moving in the opposite direction. Last year, according to the Pew Center on the States, prison population declined for the first time in 40 years. Pennsylvania is now No...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 02, 2010 (boomark / email).