More Money Spent on Prisons Than on College, Group Says
MESA, Ariz.
An education advocacy group says Arizona spends too much money operating prisons and too little money helping minorities earn college diplomas.
“Arizona now spends more money to incarcerate its Latino population than it does to educate them,” says Joel Foster, a member of the Arizona Advocacy Network, a group of nonprofit organizations.
A study by the group released earlier this month found that for every dollar spent from the state General Fund to aid Hispanics in attending college, about $1.54 is spent to incarcerate people of that ethnicity.
