The funding of higher education and corrections and its impact on African American men
Cellblocks or Classrooms, an August 2002 joint release with the national Justice Policy Institute, found that between 1985 and 2000 in Ohio, corrections spending grew 5.5 times faster than spending on higher education spending. At the report’s release, more black men were in prison (23,200) than in college (20,074) in Ohio. At the same time, Ohio had the tenth largest tuition in the country