Sentence examples for fund prison from inspiring English sources

The chancellor, Philip Hammond, confirmed in the autumn statement last week that an extra £555m over the next three years would be made available to fund prison safety measures, including the recruitment of 2,500 extra prison officers.

McDowell defended the user of taxpayers' money to fund prison radio, saying its broadcasts encouraged takeup of prison education and rehabilitation schemes across the board, and not just in radio.

Instead of using government to create jobs, we use government to fund prisons.

College graduates today face greater student debt than ever before, especially if they attended public institutions, because of choices made by many states to shift the burden of paying for college away from a collective responsibility (which is how we fund prisons and roads) toward those members of society least able to afford it (college students, few of whom already have high paying jobs).

Once accepted – and having managed to secure funding – prison restrictions can frustrate even the most motivated learner.

Given the relatively low cost roughly $1,800 per CPEP student and manifold benefits, it's hard to fathom why there isn't a national, fully funded prison education program in every facility.

You can take the cops off the streets and just quit funding prison beds.

Yet, our government continues to prioritize funding prisons over classrooms.

It is wrong when we are funding prisons and the military far more generously than the education of our children.

Funding prisons out of the pockets of families and inmates has non-financial costs too, says Brian Nelson, who spent 28 years in an Illinois state prison for murder.

Lambert's extensive research, including interviews of hundreds of elected public servants, revealed that our lawmakers are sympathetic to the needs of higher education, yet financial priorities find lawmakers supporting essential public needs such as Medicare, funding prisons and K-12 education.