I believe they already do get free education.
My grandfather was training inmates to be electricians at Southern Michigan state prison 30 years ago.
Teach them a useful trade! Like plumming, or locksmithing, maybe how to be a bank guard, or security,
Uh-huh. Let’s develop more sophisticated criminals.
Hey Newt, they already do.....
If the state could be trusted with education, there wouldn't be so many in jail to begin with.
How about not breaking the f**king law?!?!
Idiot. It’s not about education. It’s about not acting impulsively, seeing the consequences of one’s actions. Knowing right from wrong.
It would be cheaper and safer to give them disability payments and free x-boxes with Grand Theft Auto and encourage them to sit at home and play video games until they are too fat to leave the house.
Um, educating thugs just makes for better educated thugs. There are of course exceptions, but the foregoing is the rule.
No,prisoners should be warned that a second felony will earn them a bullet just above the bridge of the nose.
High school diploma-—fine.
A trade-——fine.
College degrees-——no!!!!!!!!!
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Japanese prison cell: one inmate per, perfectly clean, white box in the center of the floor. When signaled, all inmates sit in the white box on the floor, until told to stand. Don't sit in the box? A squad of guards shows up with long hard rubber truncheons. Conscious, or unconscious, inmate is sitting in box when the guards depart. Repeated as often as necessary.
Actual news story:
Reporter: but what if they don't want to sit in the box?
Guard: they are criminal, they are here to learn to obey. They will sit.
One of the lowest recidivism rates in the world. It's almost as if the criminals don't want to do things that would get them sent back to prison.
We have plenty of well-educated criminals - they’re called “politicians.”
Pay for it out of your own pocket if you like, Newt.
Teaching MORALS and LAW abiding behavior would be MUCH more useful....
LOL. Typical Newt. There are a million programs out there already is a number of states that will provide an education for non-maximum security prisoners and guess what — they don’t want it. And I say this as someone who does a lot of charity work in this area. Its sad — but realistic — to say that prisoners are “prisoners” for a reason. They don’t want to educate themselves and work hard.
Prisoners should be breaking rocks in the hot son for 12hrs a day to reduce recidivism.
Shut up, Newt.
Maybe the best way to reduce recidivism is to make prison a place that no one in their right mind would ever want to return to.
Do away with the convict schools.
Do away with the TV’s and the movies.
No radios. No phones. No recorded anything.
No gyms. No healthy never get fat meals.
You, convict, stole from us, but then we have to pay fopr years, to keep you alive?
You, convict, murdered us. But our families get the privilege of watching you grow old, and all they get is a stone marker?
Make the jails the place they were meant to be, punishment.
A convict has a bad heart? Make them run laps!
A convict has cancer? Again, we, are expected to pay for that. Not this kid!
Hey, maybe there is an ex-con out there, sucking up your disability money, because of their brought-on-by-themselves-medical condition????
No mercy from this kid towards an ex-con, period.
Now to address the article,
Those in prison should no leave without comprehensive rehabilitation. The issues that got them in should be evaluated and a program put in place to try and correct it. Education, job training, and a legal and ethical career is a far better option than our current plan which is what, put them in timeout for a few years and hope they don’t end up screwing up again? Prison and jail alone is not an effective deterrent against crime. At no point in our history is this more evident than NOW, considering our prison population continues to grow.
Put a program together and implement it. Create achievable goals and scrutinize and evaluate it. If it doesn’t work, burn it and go back to the previous plan or make a new one. There is no excuse for doing nothing. If it is broken, fix it.