Education
- Education Under Arrest The Case Against Police in Schools, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. November, 2011. "[School resource officers] and law enforcement in schools are not needed to keep kids safe, especially when youth pay the price of becoming involved in the juvenile justice system and suffer a lifetime of negative effects as a result."
- Misplaced Priorities Over Incarcerate, Under Educate, [PDF] NAACP. April, 2011. "During the last two decades, as the criminal justice system came to assume a larger proportion of state discretionary dollars, state spending on prisons grew at six times the rate of state spending on higher education."
- The Consequences of Dropping Out of High School Joblessness and Jailing for High School Dropouts and the High Cost for Taxpayers, [PDF] Center for Labor Market Studies, Northeastern University. October, 2009. "Nearly 1 of every 10 young male high school dropouts was institutionalized on a given day in 2006-2007 versus fewer than 1 of 33 high school graduates."
- Education and Public Safety Policy Brief Justice Policy Institute. August, 2007. "Graduation rates were associated with positive public safety outcomes. Researchers have found that a 5 percent increase in male high school graduation rates would produce an annual savings of almost $5 billion in crime-related expenses."
- Current Issues in Correctional Education: A Compilation and Discussion, [PDF] Council of Advancement of Adult Literacy. February, 2004.
- The Effect of Earning a GED on Recidivism Rates [PDF] State of New York Department of Correctional Services. September, 2003. "[T]hose inmates who earned a GED while incarcerated returned to custody within three years at a significantly lower rate than offender who did not earn a GED while incarcerated."
- Education and Incarceration [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. August, 2003.
- Spending More on Prisons than Higher Education [PDF] Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation. 2003. (has official and inflation adjusted comparison from FY 1968 to 2004)
- Education not Incarceration [PDF] Education Not Incarceration. 2003. (California Coalition of Teachers, Students, Parents and Citizens)
- Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African American Men, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. August, 2002. "State spending on prisons grows at 6 times the rate of higher education"
- Education vs. Incarceration: A Mississippi case study, [PDF] Grassroots Leadership. May, 2002.
- Impact of Educational Achievement of Inmates in the Windham School District on Post-Release Employment, [PDF] Criminal Justice Policy Council (Texas). June, 2000. (Windham District is the Texas prison system)
- Educational Achievement of Inmates in the Windham School District [PDF] Criminal Justice Policy Council (Texas). April, 2000. (Windham District is the Texas prison system)
- New York State of Mind?: Higher Education vs. Prison Funding in the Empire State, 1988-1998, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. December, 1998.
- Class Dismissed: Higher Education vs. Corrections During the Wilson Years, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. September, 1998. (California)
- U.S. Prison Spending Increases Faster than College Funding 1977-1995 ABC News. July, 1998. (Interactive state atlas)
- Is Maryland's System of Higher Education Suffering Because of Prison Expenditures?, Justice Policy Institute. March, 1998.
- Trading Classrooms for Cellblocks: Destructive Policies Eroding DC Communities, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. March, 1997.
- From Classrooms to Cellblocks: A National Perspective [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. February, 1997.
- From Classrooms to Cell-blocks: How Prison Building Affects Higher Education and African American Enrollment in CA, [PDF] Justice Policy Institute. October, 1996. (California)
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