By The Center for Michigan - August 29, 2007
"Our state budget crisis demands that Michigan's leaders make tough decisions," writes Birgit Klohs, president of the Right Place economic development group in Grand Rapids. "But I do not understand why those decisions must include limiting our students' access to a college education. I am even more perplexed when I compare ourdecreasing state expenditures on higher education to our ever-increasing expenditures on Michigan's prisons. Here we have the dubious honor of claiming the highest incarceration rate in the Great Lakes area...And, defying all logic, our exploding prison population is not the result of rising crime rates. In fact while our crime rate has declined since 1981, our prison population has climbed, resulting in one of the highest prisoner-to-resident ratios in the country... Something is definitely wrong with this picture."
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