Sentences with phrase «college than prison»

NECSN's Western New York Advocacy Manager Duncan Kirkwood said, «There is no time to wait if we are serious about making sure our children are better suited for college than prison.

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Even though there are more black men in college than jail, prison and probation combined.

However, more blacks are enrolled in college than in prison.

Last year, Cuomo announced a plan that would have used state funds to pay for college for prison inmates, arguing that the investment would save taxpayer dollars in the long run because incarceration is more expensive than education.

The Times Union editorializes in favor of the governor's plan to spend more than $ 7 million — none of it taxpayer dollars — on college prison programs.

Nationwide, over half of released inmates return to prison within 5 years, but for the past 14 years, less than 1 % of the inmates that received a college degree at Sing Sing returned to prison.

It is about «personal transformations for incarcerated individuals who want to imagine a future for themselves that is different than the past experiences that brought them to prison, and transformations for the college students whose time in the prison gives them new insights into the way the criminal justice system works.»

In Kentucky, African - American males are more likely to go to prison than complete a four - year college degree, Terry Holliday said in a recent interview.

Fewer than half of the male Black and Hispanic students graduate, which, given the correlation between education and incarceration rates, means that where the road to life - chances divides, these young men are more likely to be propelled along the route that leads through prison rather than that leading through college.