Despite fee hikes, UC still cheaper than prison
UC is less and less of a bargain every year. Today’s undergraduates had barely gotten used to the 32 percent fee hike that went into effect this year when the new one was imposed, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Nevertheless, on a per-capita basis, UC is still cheaper than another big and expensive component of the California state bureaucracy — the prison system. According to the Department of Corrections data, it costs about $49,000 to keep an inmate in a California prison for a year. That’s 53 percent more than the per-capita cost at the state university.
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by Lance Willimas, California Watch.