Saturday, March 28, 2026

Costs of Underfunding Concentrated Poverty Schools

 


If a kid comes out of a school in a poor area partially illiterate or illiterate and ends up in the criminal justice system partly as a result, this costs society in several direct and indirect ways.

  • Lost tax revenue (income tax, sales tax)
  • More police
  • More judges
  • More jails and prisons (public and private)
  • Public defenders
  • Prosecutors
  • Probation officers (public and private)
  • Parole officers (public and private)
  • Monitoring (drug tests, tracking) (public and private)
  • More courts and court services

So basically all these people end up making money from this, whether it's a contractor building a new jail, or a probation officer working for a private contractor. They may even be a non-profit: they make money.


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