Our schools are forced to cut nurses, counselors and teachers. Sometimes, even the neighborhood school itself is forced to closed. In Philadelphia this year, students suffered as the governor spent “nearly half a billion dollars this year on prison expansion while the School District of Philadelphia was forced to lay off over 4,000 employees at the beginning of the school year due to a budget deficit of $304 million” states the Philadelphia Student Union. Forcing students to low quality education which leads to a higher rate of dropouts which is linked to a higher rate of people convicted. On any given day, about one in every 10 young male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention, compared with one in 35 young male high school graduates.