EDUCATION IN THE US PRISON SYSTEMS

WHAT IS WRONG?

• Spending 6 times more money on prisons than public education
• 1 out of 100 adults are in prison
• We have the highest incarceration in the world
• Incarceration: putting people in prison
• 2 out of 3 are rearrested within a year after being released

WHAT IS WRONG?

• On average each inmate cost $21,000-33,000 each year
• There is about 2.4 million individuals in prison
• The amount spent on each inmate can be spent for one year in college

THE SOUTION!?!?

• Providing education programs in the prisons will reduce recidivism
• Recidivism: repeating negative behavior putting them back in prison
• Each dollar spent on funding prisons, reduces incarceration cost by $5
• Each year 700,000 are released and half are put back behind bars

WHY? HOW?

• Providing programs will help reduce inmates from returning
• From returning, that extra money is spent on public education
• Most inmates after there release does not find jobs
• With education they are more likely to turn their life around
• With positive mind thinking they will help America by making it a safer place

WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT US?

RECAP

• As prison population increased throughout the years our cost on education decreased
• Education is the "universal solvent" that will cure negativity in our society
• Education programs reduce recidivism by decreasing the population of inmates
• Education help encourage the growth of development and transform ex convicts to a successful individual
• Therefore our fundings will decrease towards prisons and increase towards public education