[Vigilanteman]

The corrections departments don’t track literacy rates among prisoners, but in Vermont officials estimate nearly 20 percent of inmates entered prison with less than a high school education. Some studies estimate nearly 60 percent of people in prison are illiterate.

I do not consider myself a genius by any stretch of the imagination, but was reading books and newspapers avidly by the time I was in 4th grade. So were a good share of my peers.

I simply cannot understand how 80% of the jailbirds in Vermont graduated from high school and how 60% can be illiterate. Have the quality of schools fallen that far since I was a pup?

[Norski]

I do not know. Perhaps some research could be done and posted.