2015 art exhibition at the Manifest Justice creative community exhibition, Los Angeles
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So, the statement that we have need for more room in prisons than in schools is really a statement of emphasis. We could have spent more money on education and not needed to build so many prisons.
Home of the free or something.
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First of all I'm pretty sure where you build a prison and where you build a school involve different specifications. You can actually build a prison in relatively the ass-end of nowhere (or on a damn island with nothing around it for that matter).
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You *may* be able to build schools there as well, but good luck getting most people to attend them. Students typically need access to groceries, post offices, jobs, libraries, bars, parking, transportation, etc.
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Second - do you have enough teachers to fulfill positions in the school once it's built? Can you afford to pay those teachers? COs and Teachers make roughly the same. From the little I can tell the requirements to be a CO are much lower than the requirements to teach at a university in California.
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according to google the average student is in university for 5 years. And many students drop out - or never return once their sentence is up. Not necessarily the case for people being arrested.
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The average inmate I don't even know how to begin to track. But some people are there a LONG time. And sometimes when you have Jack the ripper, Charles Manson, and Ed Kemper taking up all your cells, the best solution isn't to release one of them so you have space for John Wayne Gacy.
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Not to mention that building fancy schools requires maintenance and money that probably punishes students in the long run. Some end up doing their courses online when they can (especially now). You can't really *do* a prison sentence online