States Spending More on Corrections Than on Universities

The state of Wisconsin is now spending more of the states budget on the Department of Corrections than on higher education. The upward trend in spending for corrections has been increasing for the last few decades and according to studies it is not the result of just one political party. The change in sentencing laws and the "tough on crime" campaigning by politicians of both parties have helped increase the need to build more prisons. Each prison built adds additional costs to the state. Unfortunately, the trend of spending more on the Department of Corrections than on state universities has become a national trend. 

Click here to read the article in the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel