INFURIATING

Corrections Corporation of America

About Us (http://www.cca.com/about/) - We care so little about the citizens that we imprison, that we never once refer to them as anything other than inmates and offenders! We profit off of the incarceration of AMERICAN CITIZENS.

While I debate financial, competitive, and equitable reforms in education policy; I am always left wondering what percentage of it all is just rhetoric? I mean, this country has spent 6 times more on prisons than higher education...(http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/03/opinion/bloom-prison-spending).

When our current financial models would seem to suggest that it is more profitable to invest in prisons than people, they should be scrapped. When a society provides financial incentives to corporations to keep their cells full -- a.k.a. revoke people's freedom (in it's most literal and physical form), how can the same society ever hope to promote equitable education policy?

Also, just as a side note, kids in juvenile detention centers don't take the TIMSS or PISA tests...hmm...I wonder how they would affect the United States' mean Reading, Math and Science scores?

Our failing education system is clearly not just affecting our future workforce; it is having a dramatic effect on social justice as well (http://www.all4ed.org/blog/new_pew_report).