Education vs Incarceration: What would you fund?

Can you fix the system? Take the challenge at www.ThinkOutsidetheBoxCA.org ACLU THINK THE BOX OUTSIDE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION of CALIFORNIA www.thinkoutsidetheboxca.org HOW WOULD YOU CHANGE THE SYSTEM? $10,700,000,000 25% is the amount spent on California's criminal justice budget last year -- or 11% of the general fund. prisoners are in the U.S.A. of the world's $ spent on K-12 $ spent on prisoners $8,908 CA will spend an average of $8,908 a year on each K-12 student. $50,000 CA will spend approximately $50,000 a year on each adult in prison. Incarceration in California Costs 123,000 people are in CA state prisons $50,000 / year for each adult in state prison 71,000 people are in CA county jails $25,000 / year for each adult in county jail Of those in county jails, 50,000 await trial HigherEd: What could $50,000 fund? OR OR CCs CSU UC 1 year of costs for 12,500 full-time community college students 1 year of tuition for 7 full-time plus 1 half- time Cal State student 1 year of tuition for 6 full-time UC students Visit www.ThinkOutsidetheBoxCA.org and fix the system. Join us! www.bit.ly/ThinkOutsideApp @ThinkOutsideApP