By Erin Jordan, The GazetteIntroduction“It costs more to incarcerate someone for one year than it would to send them to the University of Iowa.”Source of claimFormer Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, seeking the GOP presidential nomination, at a July 17 event at the Hamburg Inn in Iowa CityAnalysisHuckabee has made similar claims since 2008, when he won Iowa’s Republican caucus, but failed to get his party’s nomination for president.