One Year of Prison Costs More Than One Year at Princeton (The Atlantic)

One year at Princeton University: $37,000. One year at a New Jersey state prison: $44,000. 

Prison and college "are the two most divergent paths one can take in life," Joseph Staten, an info-graphic researcher with Public Administration, says. Whereas one is a positive experience that increases lifetime earning potential, the other is a near dead end, which is why Staten found it striking that the lion's share of government funding goes toward incarceration.

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