We spend too much time and money sending people to jail

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One map captures the sad state of America’s prison-industrial complex

There are more jails and prisons in the U.S. than there are colleges.
America’s prison system, truly the “school of hard knocks,” incarcerates its citizens at a much higher rate than any other country in the world. There are 707 adults imprisoned per every 100,000 Americans, according to the Washington Post, a level stratospherically higher than any other developed nation.
This jarring map shows which states have more college students and which have more prisoners. And the regional divide is obvious.

Blue states apparently prefer colleges. Red ones like prisons.