New York State: $700 Million Pumped into Prisons;
$600 Million Slashed from Colleges Since 1988, Study Says More African Americans and Latinos Go "Upstate" to Prison than to College: Young People of Color, Non-Violent Offenders Hardest Hit by Growing Trade-Off

NEW YORK, NY - While New York State's prison spending has grown by $761.3 million over the last ten years, state allocations for state and city colleges in New York have been slashed by $615 million, resulting in an almost dollar for dollar trade-off, according to a Rockefeller Foundation-funded study to be released December 1 by the Correctional Association of New York and the Justice Policy Institute (JPI), a Washington, DC-based think-tank.