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UN Special Rapporteur On Education: Seeking comments from prisoners and people who have been incarcerated on the right to education

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Prisoners on Prison Education: the Special Rapporteur on education seeks to hear from people in, or formerly in, detention on their experience and views on the right to education in detention. The Special Rapporteur on education has chosen to present to the United Nations Human Rights Council a report on the right to education for people in detention. The report is to be presented in June 2009. The aim is to clarify the content of the right to education in places of detention, to identify those with the principle responsibility for its implementation and to highlight the most notable challenges faced in that implementation. It also seeks to gather examples of innovative approaches to date and lessons learnt and to offer recommendations as to how implementation might be improved...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on July 10, 2008 (boomark / email).