Education vs. prisons in California

Jeez, what a report We spend more on prisons in California than we spend on ALL of the education system.

The NPR report goes on about how California Correctional Peace Officers Association has increased labor costs of running the prisons.

What the fuck do you expect when most of the unions in the US have been decimated by business? Businesses leaving the country and businesses intimidating or firing groups who may want to form a union.

Thank you "Three strikes law."

Thank you "tough on crime" rhetoric spouting politicians. You managed to gin up the fear in people enough to really create animals who are jammed in like sardines and ready to explode at anyone of a different race in prison.

Thank you federal "war on drugs"

I can think of so many other factors, but why? It is what it is.