marcus burke says he's already been approached by agents, but he's not biting, at least yet. >> therea pressure to publish. but at the same time, you only get to come out once. so first impressions are very important. if the work isn't right, you can get charged up for people to look at you. but they aren't going to look for very long. >> reporter: and as everyone we talked to put it, "if you're in it for the job, the fame, or god forbid, the money, it's probably best to find another line of work." >> woodruff: according to a report out today from the naacp, states are spending increasingly large sums of money on prisons at the expense of public education. its research shows states spend more than $50 billion annually on government-run correction programs. in the last 20 years, state spending on prisons has grown at six times the rate of spending on higher education. and, one in 31 americans is under some form of corrections control. the effort to address the problem, identified in the report titled "misplaced priorities," has attracted a measure of bipartisan support. joining us now