1996: Priorities
1996: California spends more on prisons and corrections than on higher education. *
From 1984 to 1996, California built 21 new prisons, and only one new university.* (pdf of report)
Actions for Self-Determination:
From 1984 to 1996, California built 21 new prisons, and only one new university.* (pdf of report)
Actions for Self-Determination:
- 1991: Angela Davis, former Black Panther, political prisoner, and prison abolitionist, is appointed professor at UC Santa Cruz's History of Consciousness Program.
- 1996: Prison University Project provides college level liberal arts courses in prisons. Similar programs spring up across the country over the next 15 years.
- Late 1990s: A group of artists form the California Department of Corrections and begin altering corporate billboards.
- 2012: CURB (Californians United for a Responsible Budget) releases the Budget for Humanity. Their advocacy and organizing includes chopping 4.1 Billion in prison construction spending from the California State budget for 2012.
- Compare your family's views on college and prison. Were they seen as related? Was one more talked about than the other?
- How does the above fact affect how you view the state government? Your own motivation in school?
- Bard Prison Initiative [Organization]
- Wesleyan Center for Prison Education [Organization]
- Grinnell College Liberal Arts in Prison [Videos and Writing]
- Tax Shifts from 1985 to 2012 [NY Times infographic]
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