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Tough decision. Do you spend lots of money to keep you life or do you spend money on education, in a dangerous society?
"Right now, California spends $8.6 billion, or 11 percent of its budget, on state prisons. That works out to an average $52,363 per year to house an inmate in prison, according to the California Department of Corrections. That's $143 a day per prisoner.
"These are the costs of guarding them, providing medical care to them, the cost for the facility," said H.D. Palmer, Deputy Director of Finance for Gov. Schwarzenegger.
The state spent $7,440 per student this school year, according to Proposition 98 state funding. Education for K-12 is nearly $50 billion, or 35 percent of the state budget."
We could spend less, and have more security were it not for the courts deciding criminals need to live in comfort. The high prison costs are not due to society, the legislator or humanity; it is due to judges that want to run something.
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"Right now, California spends $8.6 billion, or 11 percent of its budget, on state prisons. That works out to an average $52,363 per year to house an inmate in prison, according to the California Department of Corrections. That's $143 a day per prisoner.
"These are the costs of guarding them, providing medical care to them, the cost for the facility," said H.D. Palmer, Deputy Director of Finance for Gov. Schwarzenegger.
The state spent $7,440 per student this school year, according to Proposition 98 state funding. Education for K-12 is nearly $50 billion, or 35 percent of the state budget."
We could spend less, and have more security were it not for the courts deciding criminals need to live in comfort. The high prison costs are not due to society, the legislator or humanity; it is due to judges that want to run something.
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