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NY Times Letter to the Editor: Education for Prisoners and the GA Prisoners Strike

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

December 17, 2010 Education for Prisoners NY Times To the Editor: Re ?Inmates in Georgia Prisons Use Contraband Phones to Coordinate Protest? (news article, Dec. 13): Georgia inmates contend that access to educational opportunities beyond the G.E.D. will better prepare them for re-entry and decrease crime and recidivism. They?re not the only ones who know this to be true. Reports released by the United States Education Department, the Justice Department and state correction departments all recognize the myriad benefits of educating prisoners. Since 1994, incarcerated students have been barred from receiving Pell grants despite the fact that prisoners received less than 1 percent of all Pell grant dollars awarded and that postsecondary education has proved to be the most successful and cost-effective way to reduce recidivism and increase public safety...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 18, 2010 (boomark / email).