Tim Kaine actually said...
Forty States. And if you look at between the late 1980s, when sentencing, mandatory minimums, three strikes you are out started to hit, the growth in State funding for prisons and incarceration dramatically exceeded the growth in State funding for higher education.
Context
Kaine highlights the decline in state funding for higher education compared to prison funding since the late 1980s.
02/11/2013