Education

  • (New) Arrested Future The Criminalization of School Discipline in Massachusetts' Three Largest School Districts, [PDF]
    ACLU of Massachusetts, May, 2012
    “While there are undoubtedly many reasons why there are more public order arrests in Springfield than in Boston or Worcester, it appears that the manner in which Springfield deploys police officers in its public schools is a contributing factor.”
  • Pay Now or Pay Much More Later Law Enforcement Leaders support high-quality early education to cut crime and save money in California, [PDF]
    Fight Crime: Invest in Kids California, April, 2012
    “Research shows that high-quality preschool programs can significantly reduce felony arrests and incarceration rates and return $10 or more in savings for every dollar invested, with nearly 1/2 of the savings coming from lower prison & crime-related costs.”
  • The Education of DC How Washington D.C.'s investments in education can help increase public safety, [PDF]
    Justice Policy Institute, February, 2012
    “This national trend is seen in D.C. as the funding for the justice system continues to increase at the expense of public education.”
  • Indicators Of School Crime And Safety, 2011 [PDF]
    Bureau of Justice Statistics, February, 2012
    “In 2009–10, about 74 percent of public schools recorded one or more violent incidents of crime, 16 percent recorded one or more serious violent incidents, and 44 percent recorded one or more thefts.”
  • 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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