Because someone on the internet suggested a scatterplot

https://www.reddit.com/r/data/comments/8acoru/education_and_incarceration_correlation/

Any correlation between U.S. educational funding and incarceration by state?

Not at all.

Data sources

https://www2.census.gov/govs/school/13f33pub.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_incarceration_and_correctional_supervision_rate