Average Quote by Marian Wright Edelman

“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

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

— Bernie Sanders

Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are…

— Michelle Alexander

I'm very much interested in getting prisons off the stock market. I'm very much interested in upgrading the public school system... and taking a…

— Ruby Dee

“Sending a teenager to jail costs more than it would to send him to Eton College, the private boarding school in England that educated…

— Tom Wainwright

“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

Our society spends a lot of money on prison bars. For the sake of our kids, let's invest in monkey bars.

— Darell Hammond

“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

As I have pointed out time and again, it's a hell of a lot cheaper to send little kids to school than it is…

— Molly Ivins

How do we redefine education so that 30-50 percent of inner-city children do not drop out of school, thus ensuring that millions will end…

— Grace Lee Boggs

More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in itself, is the description of a nation bent on suicide. I mean, what…

— Jonathan Kozol

Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.

— Michelle Alexander