Prison Education

Education From the Inside Out: A Plea for Prison Education

Baz Dreisinger | Posted 01.31.2012

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Baz Dreisinger

If we care about equitable prisoner re-entry and about reducing America's absurdly high recidivism rate, we should care about prison education. The value of higher education behind bars transcends dollars and cents.

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How and Why I Teach in Prisons, Part Four

Steve Mariotti | Posted 10.21.2011

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Steve Mariotti

With all the talk of school reform, seldom if any thought given to what the millions children that drop out of school every year want to learn.

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How and Why I Teach in Prisons, Part Three

Steve Mariotti | Posted 10.20.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Prison Education, Incarceration, Drug War, Prison, Incarceration Rates, Prisoners, Prisons, Crime News
Steve Mariotti

Like the standard business cycle, drug money creates booms, busts, and misallocations of investments and resources. One of the most insidious aspects of the drug industry is that its excess profits are invested in human capital.

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How and Why I Teach in Prisons, Part Two

Steve Mariotti | Posted 10.19.2011

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Steve Mariotti

Why do young men go into the drug industry? Foremost is a lack of vision. Often these individuals do not see themselves as having a life worth living so they will jeopardize it for quick money.

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How and Why I Teach in Prisons

Steve Mariotti | Posted 10.17.2011

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Steve Mariotti

The trauma of me being mugged in a park in 1981 had far-reaching consequences. To cope with the flashbacks and feelings of powerlessness and humiliation, I taught the kind of children who had attacked me in order to better understand their motives.

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From An Israeli Prison to Tahrir Square: One Palestinian's Odyssey in a Middle East Ablaze

Jen Marlowe | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jen Marlowe

I had never considered the possibility that a decade in prison might not harden a prisoner against his jailers but provide him with the intellectual and emotional tools to become a passionate advocate for reconciliation.

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Wayne Treacy, Teen Charged With Attempted Murder, Sues For Education In Jail

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wayne Treacy, Juvenile Dentention, Josie-Ratley, Prison Education, Juvenile Justice, School Violence, Josie Lou Ratley, Teen Murder, Education News

Florida teenager Wayne Treacy is suing the Broward County school board and sheriff's department for denying him adequate education while he is in jail...

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Prison College Decreases Inmates' Return Rate

Tulsa World | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aaron Tuhacek is the first person in his family to get a college degree, and he did so in prison. Tuhacek, 36, received an associate degree in comput...

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A Different Kind Of Sentence As Reading Replaces Prison Time

The Guardian | Anna Barker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Changing Lives Through Literature, Prison, Books, Robert Waxler, Reading Club, Rehabilitation, Reading, Prisoner Reform, Prison Education, Books News

With one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, and the death penalty, the US state of Texas seems the last place to embrace a liberal-minde...

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Reading In Prison: Ten Books; No Hard Covers

Kenneth Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hardcover Books, Prison, Prisoners' Rights, Prison Education, Books, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Reading in Prison, Shakespeare, Reading, Books News
Kenneth Hartman

In an atmosphere as poisoned as the criminal justice world, the restrictions that made any sense at all ran out fast. Somewhere along the way, hardcover books were deemed potentially dangerous.

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