How Would You Spend Your Tax Dollars: Day 2

 

Fund Education not Incarceration!

Empower the next generation by putting tax dollars into children and learning. States spend three times the amount of money per prisoner as per public school pupil.

Nationally, 1 in 3 Black boys and one in 6 Latino boys born in 2001 are at risk of imprisonment during their lifetime. The rate of incarceration is endangering children at younger and younger ages.

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Watch Michelle Alexander speak more about Mass Incarceration

 "The education justice movement and the prison justice movement have been operating separately in many places as though they’re in silos. But the reality is we’re not going to provide meaningful education opportunities to poor kids, kids of color, until and unless we recognize that we’re wasting trillions of dollars on a failed criminal justice system. Kids are growing up in communities in which they see their loved ones cycling in and out of prison and in which they are sent the message in countless ways that they, too, are going to prison one way or another. We cannot build healthy, functioning schools within a context where there is no funding available because it’s going to building prisons and police forces."

 -Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness