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PREVENTING CRIME 101: MORE COLLEGE IN PRISONS

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

PREVENTING CRIME 101: MORE COLLEGE IN PRISONS Increasing higher ed opportunities behind bars lowers recidivism rates and incarceration costs over the long run, say advocates. > By Jarrett Murphy City Limits WEEKLY #673 February 2, 2009 At a time when Gov. David Paterson is proposing the closure of four New York prisons as part of wide-ranging budget cuts, an advocacy group is calling on the state to spend money in order to save money?by funding college courses for more of the 61,000 inmates in state prisons. The Correctional Association of New York (CA), a nonprofit organization that inspects prisons and recommends policy, says in a new report that college courses save taxpayers money because inmates with college degrees are less likely to return to crime?and prison?after their release...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).