Report Documents U.S. Recidivism Rates for Federal Prisoners

Mar 24, 2016 No Comments

The U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), an independent agency within the judicial branch that writes federal sentencing guidelines and studies federal crime and sentencing policies, on March 9 released a major new study, ‘Recidivism Among Federal Offenders: A Comprehensive Overview’. Drawing on data on more than 25,400 former inmates who were either released outright from federal

Virginia offers state prisoners college credit

Mar 24, 2016 No Comments

In a welcome move, Governor Terry McAuliffe is making Virginia the only state to offer state prisoners college credit for five career and technical education courses recommended by ACE CREDIT – the American Council on Education’s College Credit Recommendation Service. Founded in 1918, ACE is the major coordinating body for all of the nation’s higher

Shifting to restorative justice in Los Angeles schools

Mar 17, 2016 No Comments

As the school-to-prison pipeline system continues to be under scrutiny, schools in the Los Angeles area are working to reduce this, armed with mounting evidence that harsh punishment for small offenses at an early age does not reduce crime rates, but makes it more likely that offenders to go to prison than to college. Realizing

California Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Governor’s Prison Reform Plan Reaches Ballot

Mar 10, 2016 No Comments

A proposed ballot measure launched by Calif. Gov. Edmund G. ‘Jerry’ Brown to amend so-called ‘determinate’ sentencing rules would need to gather nearly 600,000 valid signatures from state voters to reach the November ballot. Brown’s proposed ballot initiative, introduced in late January, would let the state’s voters decide on a package of proposed criminal law and

The Argument for College in Prison

Mar 9, 2016 No Comments

By Christopher Zoukis The concept of providing a college education to American prisoners is nothing new. As early as 1953, a few select prisons permitted such educational programming. But it wasn’t until 1965, and Title IV of the Higher Education Act, that prisoners were permitted to obtain the funding of Pell Grants for their college

UK Prison Reform a Step Toward Reducing Recidivism

Feb 10, 2016 No Comments

UK Prime Minister David Cameron has offered a far-reaching proposal for improving what he describes as the “scandalous” failure of the English and Welsh prison system. Calling his plan the biggest overhaul to the national corrections system since the Victorian era, Cameron said he is the first prime minister to speak on the problem in

Books a Gateway to Greater Literacy for Prison Inmates

Feb 3, 2016 No Comments

How do you escape? Many people would say they’d mostly curl up with a good book, and so do we. Books are a way of getting away and seeing things from a new perspective no matter where you are, even more so if you don’t have the opportunity to do so otherwise. This is the

Real reform only possible through prison education

Jan 21, 2016 No Comments

Every week, it seems, we hear a little bit more about the sweeping reforms needed to fix America’s broken criminal justice system. It’s encouraging to hear acknowledgment by U.S. government leaders – President Barack Obama, even – that the ‘lock them up and throw away the key’ mentality has failed not just incarcerated men and

The “buzz” on New Zealand prison vocational training

Dec 17, 2015 No Comments

Well this is one for the books, apiary books, to be specific. Inmates at several New Zealand prisons are being given training in a surprising area: beekeeping. Apiculture is now being taught to youths at Hawkes’ Bay Regional Prison through a correspondence course at Lincoln University as well as Auckland South Corrections Facility. Honey is

The Fine Arts of prison education

Dec 10, 2015 No Comments

Slowly but surely, it feels like change is coming when it comes to prison education. Indeed, it can feel like an uphill battle many days, but that’s why it’s so important to enjoy stories like these. Ten years ago, prison reform wasn’t even on most legislators’ radars, let alone the public’s. Fast forward to today,

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Report Documents U.S. Recidivism Rates for Federal Prisoners

Virginia offers state prisoners college credit

Shifting to restorative justice in Los Angeles schools

California Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Governor’s Prison Reform Plan Reaches Ballot

The Argument for College in Prison

UK Prison Reform a Step Toward Reducing Recidivism

Books a Gateway to Greater Literacy for Prison Inmates

Real reform only possible through prison education

The “buzz” on New Zealand prison vocational training

The Fine Arts of prison education

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