"There's a direct relationship between how much money the Golden State spends on prisons and how much it spends on higher education, according to a report put out by the non-partisan public policy group California Common Sense. When one goes up, the other goes down. And, at least in California, the former has been going up a lot more than the latter. The study, entitled Winners and Losers: Corrections and Higher Education in California, looked at the state's general fund expenditures on corrections and higher education from the period between 1981 and 2011. Since 1980, higher education spending has decreased by 13 percent in inflation adjusted dollars, whereas spending on California's prisons and associated correctional programs has skyrocketed by 436 percent...".* Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (host of TYT University and Common Room) break it down on The Young Turks.

The US state of California has been spending more on detention centres than college education.

California is spending 1,370 percent more money on prisons today compared to 1980 levels, says a report by the organization California Common Sense, quoted by NBC Bay Area. The study is the first time a group has looked at 30 years worth of data and crunched the numbers to show a long-term trend between state spending on prisons and on higher education, says the group's Mike Polyakov. California spent $592 million on corrections in 1980, compared with $9.2 billion in 2011.

According to a report from non-profit watchdog California Common Sense, the state now spends more on prisons than universities.

A new study issued by the non-partisan California Common Sense group documents the relationship between how much money our state spends on prisons and how much is spent on higher education. When one goes up, the report says, the other goes down.

The report, released by the non-partisan public policy group California Common Sense and entitled Winners and Losers: Corrections and Higher Education in California, takes a look at the state's general fund spending on prisons and colleges from the period between 1981 and 2011, The Huffington Post reported on Friday.

There's a direct relationship between how much money the Golden State spends on prisons and how much it spends on higher education, according to a report put out by the non-partisan public policy group California Common Sense. When one goes up, the other goes down.

California is spending 1,370 percent more money on prisons today compared to 1980 levels. NBC Bay Area got the first look at a report from Los Altos-based, non-partisan research group California Common Sense (CACS) published Thursday.

A staff chart given to Los Angeles city council labor negotiators this month shows that city retirement costs nearly doubled in the last seven years, soaring to 18.6 percent of general fund revenue this fiscal year, $848 million.