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Can we save education by releasing elderly prisoners?
By wwl.com- Angela Hill
Published: 04/01/2015

Do you know what the budget for the Louisiana Department of Corrections is?

Between $600 and $700 million dollars every year. And that figure only includes state prisons - it does not account for local jails, or courts or police. Just state prisons. $700 million. That's $150 million more dollars than we spend on the entire LSU system.

The news right now is full of headlines about draconian cuts to higher education, and to learn that we spend more on state prisons than state universities is disturbing.

So as we are looking at ways to fill a $1.6 billion dollar deficit, some have suggested that we look for savings in the Department of Corrections, and closely inspect the amount of money Louisiana spends every year on elderly and sick state prisoners. There are thousands of them, and their shelter and medical costs add up quickly.

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