Sentencing Law and Policy: "Turn Prisons Into Colleges" ... and urging colleges to invest in prisoner education
The quoted portion title of this post is the headline of this recent New York Times commentary authored by Elizabeth Hinton. Here are excerpts (with a little commentary at the end from me): Imagine if prisons looked like the grounds of universities. Instead of languishing in cells, incarcerated people sat in classrooms and learned about climate science or poetry — just like college students. Or even with them. This would be a boon to prisoners across the country, a vast majority of whom do not have a high school diploma. And it could help shrink our prison population. While racial disp...
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