{"id":2237,"date":"2011-04-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/georgia-18000-per-prisoner-vs-3800-per-student-fox-news.html"},"modified":"2011-04-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:00:00","slug":"georgia-18000-per-prisoner-vs-3800-per-student-fox-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/georgia-18000-per-prisoner-vs-3800-per-student-fox-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Georgia: $18,000 per prisoner vs. $3,800 per student –Fox News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nElizabeth Pran asks\n\nWho Gets More Tax Dollars… Prisoners or School Children?<\/a>\nOf course, being Fox News, it advocates cutting prison\ncosts by reducing air conditioning for prisoners.\nThe real problem is the War on Drugs and Three Strikes.\nShe does at last manage to mention in passing “alternative programs\nfor non-violent offenders.”\nYes, like not locking up people for minor drug offenses in the first place!\n

\nAnd indeed, educating students today would cost less than\nlocking them up later.\n

\nMeanwhile, privatizing prisons does nothing to solve these problems;\nit just lines some corporation’s pockets with tax money.\n

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