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Study: Prison Spending Grew at Three Times the Rate of Education Spending over Last Three Decades

by Lonnie Burton

A July 2016 report by the U.S. Department of Education found that spending on prisons and jails nationwide outpaced what public officials spent on education at a rate of more than three-to-one. The study covered a 33-year period – from 1979 to 2012 – which saw the ...

 

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