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Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African American Men

"[T]ools to make better choices to meet both educational and public safety needs" are provided (p. 2). Sections of this report include: introduction -- the "dire situation" of state budgets; paying for classrooms and corrections -- the changing structure of state financing; methodology 1 -- state spending analysis, 985-2000; finding 1 -- the share of total state and local government spending on higher education has declined as spending on prison has increased; finding 2 -- between 1985 and 2000, state corrections spending grew at 6 times the rate of higher education; the social math of choosing cellblocks over classrooms -- more African American men incarcerated than enrolled in higher education; methodology 2 -- comparing African American male enrollment to estimates of African Americans in prison can jail; finding 3 -- nearly a third more African American men are incarcerated than in higher education; and conclusion -- the chance to choose classrooms over cellblocks in the future. Accession Number: 017941

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