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The United States spends approximately $47,000 to $65,000 per year to incarcerate one person. It spends approximately $16,500 per year to educate one child. This arithmetic is not accidental. An educated person with economic options is a less reliable source of prison revenue than an uneducated person with no economic options in a neighborhood where the drug trade is the primary employer. The system is not failing to produce educated citizens. It is succeeding at producing prison population. Measure it by what it produces, not what it claims to intend, and it is working exactly as designed. The schools in the poor neighborhoods are underfunded by design. American schools are funded by local property taxes, which means wealthy neighborhoods have wealthy schools and poor neighborhoods have poor schools. This is the arrangement that has been legally challenged and politically defended and judicially upheld for decades. By design. The pipeline from underfunded school to overcrowded prison is not a metaphor. It is infrastructure. Built, maintained, and profitable.