Statistics that can't be ignored “States and the federal government spend $48 billion annually on prisons, and the prison investments are growing faster than state investment in colleges and universities”. Moreover, “an estimated $87 billion in gross domestic product is lost to the U.S. economy each year because of incarceration. And yet more than half of the 600,000 people released from prisons and jails every year will end up back behind bars. The biggest factor? They can’t