In Ashley Woodruff's post, "Texas Spends Millions on College for Prison Inmates," the budgeting deficit for Texas is discussed. This post hits at the fact that prison inmates are not getting "student loans," that allows them to get an education and pay it pack once they are released. Now on to the statistics. According to the post, 22,000 prison inmates have pulled these "student loans," and only 6,630 inmates have actually paid them back. Only $4.5 million has been paid back, leaving $9.5 million going unpaid. Nevertheless, his totals around $15 million that is going to fund prison inmates.
According to Mrs. Woodruff, the total of $15 million should have been spent on funding the people who are not in prison. With the current talk and proposed cutting of education; Ashley would rather see the funds cut for prisoner education and have that money help with non-prisoner education.
In my opinion, I would have to agree with Ms. Woodruff and her belief on the correct cutting of funding. I do think that it is a good idea to give prisoner inmates a chance to better themselves, but in hard times I believe that money should be cut from prisoners first. Education is a key part of our growth of a nation and cutting education can be crippling. Texas already struggles with k-12 education, so cutting that much needed funding does not make sense. If Texas could come together and cut small, not critical, and ridiculous funded entities, the budget crisis might be adverted. Leaving our legislation to come up with a new plan will give way to where those cuts will be made.
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