Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Cut education to expand prisons:Prop 6: NO

I looked at ballotpedia and saw this proposition just wants to get People of Color (P.O.C.) both documented and undocumented off the streets and behind bars.

Prop 6 wants to do this by underfunding education and the environment!
Require new state spending on various criminal justice programs, as well as for increased costs for prison and parole operations. This funding would come from California's General Fund, reallocating funds currently spent on K-12 Education, Higher Education, Health and Human Services, Business, Transportation and Housing, and Environmental Protection.

I know that the quickest way to continue to overflow California's prisons with P.O.C. is to underfund education. The people who want prop 6 to pass don't want to solve anything. They just want to continue making money off of P.O.C. in the prison system.
18-to-24-year-old male high school dropouts had an incarceration rate 31 times that of males who graduated from a four-year college. If you're a young black male with no high school diploma, it's worse: You're 60 times more likely to end up behind bars than your classmates who earned a bachelor's degree.
I didn't even have to look far to get it.

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