Education Quote by Bernie Sanders

If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration.

— Oren Moverman

We're spending, on average, three times more for prison than for public-school pupils. That's the dumbest investment policy. It doesn't make us safer.

— Marian Wright Edelman

“We have been spending far more for prison institutions than for higher education in the last 20 years. What does that say about our…

— Christopher Zoukis

“In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.”

— John Grisham

The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.

— Clint Smith

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

— Sam Branson

If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

— Salman Khurshid

We're foolish if we think we're going to end mass incarceration unless we are willing to deal with the reality that huge percentages of…

— Michelle Alexander

“Expensive illogicalities and inefficiencies do not worry the monsters of American bureaucracy, and the taxpayers are enthusiastic and eager to spend fortunes in the…

— Howard Marks

Like health care, education is something worth spending on and worth investing in, but we're spending more and getting less.

— Tom Golisano

“Between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every ten days. Prison growth and the resulting “prison-industrial complex”—the business interests…

— Bryan Stevenson

If we went back to the imprisonment rate we had in the early '70s, something like four out of five people employed in the…

— Eugene Jarecki