Notes

Education costs far less than incarceration … and gets better results.
Average annual State expense
K-12 $8,701 
College $10,674
Prison $23,876

That is $147,108 to educate … versus
$286,512 to incarcerate.

With that education, rates of incarceration go down, there is increase in economic competitiveness, and health-care costs are lowered.
The US ranks 18th among the 36 industrialized nations for Education. The United States now has a higher percentage of its citizens imprisoned than any other country in the world.