I'm doing an essay about more tax money being spent on prisons than education. Any facts?
2006-10-06 15:49:24 · 7 answers · asked by Stacia t 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
There is more spent on Prisons, but far more schools. Prisons are very expensive. It costs $70,000 a year to keep one person in a maximum security prison.
2006-10-06 15:52:47 · answer #1 · answered by martin h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We spend more to keep one person in prison than we spend to send one person to public school. There are those that would suggest that fewer people would go to prison if we spent more on schools. If that were the case we should find no one in prison that is educated. That is not the case. A society will produce a given number of anti social behaving people and the more freedom that society has the larger number of those people will find their way into the penal system. I would guess that you are writing this paper for school so it may not be a real good idea to mention that the big supporters of the idea of spending more money on schools and less on prison are school teachers. I am sure they don't have any motives other than the interest of the future prisoners. School in prison also does not work unless it is related to a trade or other marketable skill. Just some random thoughts. Good luck with your paper.
2006-10-06 17:13:55 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you think inside the box, then schools win. Out side the box thinking = schools are prisons where kids are held and monitored by teachers, work is a place you have to report on time & released at end of day, watched by cameras and bosses, ( sometimes called slave drivers. )
The free ones collect welfare! Just a thought.
Then there are those persons who Pres Bush is trying to catch, keep us all prisioners of our minds.
Just more thoughts.
2006-10-06 16:15:01 · answer #3 · answered by BeenDareDoneThat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that multiple studies show the more money per student a school spends, the lower the average test scores are. The real issue is not money, its how students are taught.
BTW I intend to break my own rule against voting on questions I answered and vote for the answer above mine as Best Answer.
2006-10-07 10:30:10 · answer #4 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many more schools than prisons.
2006-10-06 15:50:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say some prisons are probaly safer than some schools now.
2006-10-06 15:57:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No there are more schools ..........who ever told you that is a ninkunpoop
2006-10-06 15:51:46 · answer #7 · answered by crownvic64 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋