Comments on: US Spends 6 Times More on Prisons than Education

By: Realist

Realist — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:46:24 +0000

Get a job.

By: galilei

galilei — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:54:33 +0000

Janie, you’re a fascist. The US doesn’t have the highest per capita prison population in the world because we have the most crime. It is because we have a corrupt system.
The news media scare us with crime stories and push us to want tougher laws, but every prisoner behind bars represents profits to the investor class. So, as in Nazi Germany, we lap up the ‘law and order’ excuses while people’s whole lives are stolen from them, which provides the excuse for our tax money to flow to the already rich. The ones who own the companies that provide food, clothing and often personnel for the prisons. When was the last time you read a mainstream media article auditing one of those companies? That’s right. Never. They’re ripping us off wholesale.
Disgusting.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:21:53 +0000

Read a few books on this topic and estimate around 28% incarcerated for drug offenses. I am moving out of this country as millions already have to get away from this police state. The joke is the U.S government is the biggest drug dealer in the world, when Cheney was approached with a question of why in Afghanistan is the U.S. not destroying the poppy fields he replied, not enough manpower and money. What he did not say is that troops are used as security guards for the poppy fields.

By: Bart

Bart — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:13:58 +0000

many people say, omg how america has changed.
in fact they are wrong, america hasnt changed a bit, but the best pr machine ever, the best and most expensive mask ever built is gently, slowly coming off.

By: Mick Meaney

Mick Meaney — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:22:43 +0000

Your comment was not accepted because it contained a barrage of insults to another poster.

Keep it civil and there’s no problem.

Thanks.

By: Give me a break

Give me a break — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:21:41 +0000

This site is apparently afraid of the truth since my last comment was not accepted…

“The RATE OF INCREASE for prison costs was six times greater than [THE RATE OF INCREASE] for higher education spending, the report said.”

There is a very big difference.

By: michael mazur

michael mazur — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:49:45 +0000

Were the State to spend on education what it spends on prisons it would need only to spend on prisons what it now spends on education .

But that would create an educated thinking population who would begin to demand of the State that it justify abdicating the public good, as it has, by giving the licence to private banks to create money out of thin air and to charge interest on it.

That is why the private banks demand that education for nearly all people be so designed that most people by far are rendered incapable of even posing the question of how money is really created, let alone coming to the independant conclusion that it is only thin air being loaned to us at interest.

One further intended result of our `education` is that it leaves people ill equipped to properly handle life, but the State and the banks don’t really mind as they would rather have us all in jail anyway.

By: Janie

Janie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:25:02 +0000

Jack quwin, you have hit it on the head, but you have the wrong answer. Paying them money is not going to fix any problems. Look at that amount of money spent, as Jack says, that is more than decent people are making WORKING for a living. Prisons are too nice, why should prisoners live a life so much better than honest working people? They should take away the TV’s, the cable, the cigarettes. Hard labor and simple, but nourishing, food (oatmeal anyone?) would do alot to reduce the expenses. Expand the death penalty, or even just execute those on death row. Inmates on death row cost over 5 times the average cost of regular prisoners. Bring back some physical punishment. Speeding - 5 lashes, drug use - 25 lashes, second offense 50 lashes, 3rd 75…you get the idea. Those kinds of punishments are effective. Cruel and Unusual? It is cruel and unusual for me to have to slave away at 2 jobs so I can eat, and then have my tax money going to pay for those thugs that live better than I do. I have people in my neighborhood that when things get tough for them, they go do something so they get put back in jail. At least there they get free TV, free food, and a place to sleep instead of having to work to get those things. You can bet that if they started getting whippings then wouldn’t be so eager to go back to commit crimes anymore.

By: Adam Seale

Adam Seale — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:15:22 +0000

Anyone else also see something of a connection between a horrid public school system and high crime rates?

By: jack quwin

jack quwin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:19:22 +0000

you all are missing the bigger picture
how many of they would stay out of prison if u gave them $1000 per month, and we saved a heck of a lot of money that way.
i live comfortably on slightly less the $600 per month
if you count what HUD give me for section 8 I make about $800 dollars a month

I looked up 3 states
FL: $1583 per month (all most twice what I make)
FL $19,000 per inmate cost per year
Mi $2546 per month (WAY more then I make)
Mi $30,555 per inmate per year
Indiana’s $1691 per month (more than double what I make)
Indiana’s $20,294 per year

so you see the savings here ?
instead of sending them to prison give then $1000 per month
and save a hell of a lot of money

maybe I should sue my state for the money they do not have to pay for me not being in prison.

but Prison populations like this is what happens when you get rid of what they called
“the welfare state.” That gave people WAY less then what we are paying to house them in prison. Only women can really get welfare now. I’m a prime example, welfare will pay nothing for my rent or utilities or medicine, but are willing to give me $11 per month in food stamps. Now if I was a woman I would qualify for more and this includes checks for housing, utilities and Medicaid/Medicare.

ever notice they are not building MORE woman prisons ?
you get 5 male prisons for every one woman’s prison

SO I SAY pay then $1000 per month and save us all money

Peace