Woukd we helpful if you cited your sources for your statistics at bottom of infographic. Pew Center reports prove that education = employment opportunities which = recidivism. Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison has sponsored 260 college degrees in prison. 85 of their alumni have been released from prison over past 10 years and 0% have returned. Meanwhile the national average is 43% return within 3 years. Great proof that education makes the difference. Check out their infographic at http://www.hudsonlink.org/about/why-prison-education and their website at http://www.hudsonlink.org. They have a documentary that has won film festivals across the country and was… Read more »
Reminds of a grim stat from my younger days that went something like “black men from ages 18-25 were 33% more likely to end up in prison than any other demographic”.
USA: We take the whole “lockdown” thing very seriously.
Sophie, if you’re using a PC, you can press CTRL and scroll up or down with your mouse wheel, which will make the text and images on the website bigger or smaller respectively.
Very nice info-graphic. Really fucked up situation. With re: to our prison population, I place a lot of the blame on the “war on drugs” filling our prisons with nonviolent drug offenders, in addition to the growing number of corporate-owned prisons because many of them have close-to-capacity or half-capacity quotas.
I absolutely agree with your comment about our prisons being filled from the “war on drugs.” New York’s prisons are filled with non-violent offenders because of the Rockefeller Drug Laws and people are facing extremely long periods of incarceration for drug use instead of being placed in drug treatment programs as an alternative to incarceration. How is going to prison going to break an addiction? How is that a good use of taxpayer dollars?
As an educator I totally sympathize, but how much of this really is cause and effect? Is this really an either/or kind of thing? If only young men had more classroom space they wouldn’t be joining gangs? I’m going to need some clearer explanation than a side-by-side comparison. For example, I’m not sure the point of the mental health statistic. Are we supposed to build more schools to take care of the mentally ill? Sure, prison is an exceptionally bad way to handle mental illness, but I’m not sure what that has to do with school funding. Simple solution #1:… Read more »
I understand what you’re saying, it’s not really clear that one causes the other, and that makes the bottom few graphics problematic.
However, the top few are still useful. It’s really sad to see how much we are spending per-prisoner, and consider how we’ve clung to that spending even when the budgets for schools are getting cut. While cutting a school budget may not lead directly to an increase in incarceration, it’s a sad reminder that we had to cut the school budgets because of how much we are spending on prisons in the first place.
Mistype in my comment: Education = employment opportunities = REDUCTION in recidivism. It’s a fact.
Woukd we helpful if you cited your sources for your statistics at bottom of infographic. Pew Center reports prove that education = employment opportunities which = recidivism. Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison has sponsored 260 college degrees in prison. 85 of their alumni have been released from prison over past 10 years and 0% have returned. Meanwhile the national average is 43% return within 3 years. Great proof that education makes the difference. Check out their infographic at http://www.hudsonlink.org/about/why-prison-education and their website at http://www.hudsonlink.org. They have a documentary that has won film festivals across the country and was… Read more »
Reminds of a grim stat from my younger days that went something like “black men from ages 18-25 were 33% more likely to end up in prison than any other demographic”.
USA: We take the whole “lockdown” thing very seriously.
It looks really interesting but with such pale colors and so much info in one chart, I cannot read it.
Sophie, if you’re using a PC, you can press CTRL and scroll up or down with your mouse wheel, which will make the text and images on the website bigger or smaller respectively.
Very nice info-graphic. Really fucked up situation. With re: to our prison population, I place a lot of the blame on the “war on drugs” filling our prisons with nonviolent drug offenders, in addition to the growing number of corporate-owned prisons because many of them have close-to-capacity or half-capacity quotas.
I absolutely agree with your comment about our prisons being filled from the “war on drugs.” New York’s prisons are filled with non-violent offenders because of the Rockefeller Drug Laws and people are facing extremely long periods of incarceration for drug use instead of being placed in drug treatment programs as an alternative to incarceration. How is going to prison going to break an addiction? How is that a good use of taxpayer dollars?
As an educator I totally sympathize, but how much of this really is cause and effect? Is this really an either/or kind of thing? If only young men had more classroom space they wouldn’t be joining gangs? I’m going to need some clearer explanation than a side-by-side comparison. For example, I’m not sure the point of the mental health statistic. Are we supposed to build more schools to take care of the mentally ill? Sure, prison is an exceptionally bad way to handle mental illness, but I’m not sure what that has to do with school funding. Simple solution #1:… Read more »
I understand what you’re saying, it’s not really clear that one causes the other, and that makes the bottom few graphics problematic.
However, the top few are still useful. It’s really sad to see how much we are spending per-prisoner, and consider how we’ve clung to that spending even when the budgets for schools are getting cut. While cutting a school budget may not lead directly to an increase in incarceration, it’s a sad reminder that we had to cut the school budgets because of how much we are spending on prisons in the first place.
See…the U.S. is still #1 in something. 🙂
Go USA!