“A college student costs the state $8,667 per year; a prisoner costs it $45,006 a year.”
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Let’s hear it for The War On Some Drugs!
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“A college student costs the state $8,667 per year; a prisoner costs it $45,006 a year.”
Link.
Let’s hear it for The War On Some Drugs!
What happens if you send the kid to college, where he gets exposed to the marijuana and ends up in prison anyway. Then you’ve just wasted 48K+ on the stoner.
$53K+. Apparently college didn’t do me any good, either.
Sure, prison costs more than grad school. But you learn so much more!
What kind of graduate student knows how to make toilet wine, or give a tattoo using soot from a burnt styrofoam cup? That kind of education costs money, people.
Not to mention “Shivs and Shanks: Critical Differences and Preferred Construction Techniques”
Hey, I know an ex-con who makes $14 an hour doing manufacturing, and an MBA grad making $10 an hour as a secretary. Who says prison doesn’t work?
Nobody’s really studied rates of graduate student recidivism, but that place has a way of getting to you, you get… institutionalized. Why after getting out I still have to ask a committee every time I formulate a proper control, can’t squeeze out one figure without someone’s permission.
You joke, but moving from academia into industry has been a heck of a culture shock for me for the last six weeks or so. I’m really surprised at how little sense some of my long-ingrained habits really made.
Yeah, I’m not completely joking. The more I’m here, the scarier it seems on the outside.
I think both industry and academia each have their own quirks. As do the people who work in them.