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Prisons the biggest recipient of Alabama's education stimulus dollars

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"Alabama spent about $4,500 in education stimulus dollars per prisoner, about four times the amount per student in kindergarten through 12th grade." Prisons the biggest recipient of Alabama's education stimulus dollars December 19, 2010, Rena Havner Philips, Press-Register Alabama?s biggest recipient of federal education stimulus dollars thus far is not a local school system or a college: It?s the Department of Corrections, according to a Press-Register analysis. The agency has received $118 million of $1.1 billion in stimulus funding doled out to the state by the U.S. Department of Education since 2009. The money covered health care costs for 26,000 inmates, and salaries and benefits for about 4,200 corrections officers and other employees for three and a half months, officials said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).