Pop Quiz: California Spent X Times As Much On Prisoners As It Did On Students?

CORRECTION: Thanks to some intrepid tweet checking from Knight Fellow Martyn Williams, we discovered that the CNN data behind this comparison is incomplete and potentially misleading — it’s comparing total prison spending to a subset of higher education spending. Unfortunately, enrollment data is not available for the entire California higher-education system, so we’re unable to update our graphic to provide a per-capita comparison. We’ve amended the headline to indicate our uncertainty.