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State and Local Expenditures on Corrections and Education

  • Author: US Dept of Education
  • Year: July 2016
  • Format: Written Document
Over the past three decades, state and local government expenditures on prisons and jails have increased about three times as fast as spending on elementary and secondary education. At the postsecondary level, the contrast is even starker: from 1989–90 to 2012–13, state and local spending on corrections rose by 89 percent while state and local appropriations for higher education remained flat. This policy brief examines state-by-state trends to compare the extent to which state and local governments are investing in education and in corrections. More specifically,this brief uses extant data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau, and other sources to present a snapshot of the changes in state and local expenditures for corrections and education between two points in time — 1979–80 to 2012–13 — both nationally and by state

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