How about less prisons and more schools?

Our young people are suffering. They suffer most of all because they are voiceless, powerless and remain at the mercy of our collective dysfunction. The ironic refrain of “I don’t know what’s wrong with our young people;” echoes through the halls of educational institutions... In the social, religious and political gathering places within our communities, elders lament and shake their heads, as if our young people could transform at will into functional beings, the likes of which are hardly being modeled by even our most prominent authority figures. (The former Governor of New York Elliot Spitzer is the most recent prime example).
Our government is spending more money on armaments and prison building than it spends on national infrastructure and improving the quality of American education. In failing to make our voices heard; in failing to speak out on behalf of our most at risk populations, in turning a blind eye to this worsening societal malaise and dysfunction, we are guaranteeing the continued growth of the police state and a national prison population already greater than that of Communist China's.