Where you spend your money defines your priorities....

Texas has increased the budgets of their penal system much more rapidly than they have advanced their spending on higher education. The message? If you're young, and not white, you have a better chance of landing in jail than college.

a quote from the article:

"We have to fight the crime issue by being tough and smart. No one questions that we are being tough enough. We may be coming up short on how smart we have been..."

via fark