The amount of money spent on prison and jails is outpacing that for education, a new government report found.

The U.S. Department of Education Policy and Program Studies Service analyzed spending on correctional facilities and education, and found that expenditures for education increased from $258 billion to $534 billion nationally, while expenditures for correctional facilities increased from $17 billion to $71 billion from the 1979-80 to 2012-13.

That means during those years, spending for schools increased by 107 percent, while spending for prisons increased by 324 percent during the same time period.

The Education Department links several factors to the jump in spending: the United States has 5 percent of the world’s population but 20 percent of the world’s inmates, and the correctional system has pushed more people into the nation’s prisons and jails.

Since the ‘80s, the population of people in the nation's prisons have grown 345 percent, while the U.S. population has only grown by 49 percent.

Even so, more money is spent per taxpayer on education, when compared to incarceration.

The amount that states spend varies widely, however. Texas’ spending has jumped the most, while California’s has been comparatively modest— 369 percent compared to 869 percent.

The report argues for improved education policies and expenditures because, “linkages exist between education attainment and incarceration.”

Explore the map below to see how much spending has increased in each state.