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| College Behind Bars: How Educating Prisoners Pays Off |
| By .forbes.com - David Skorton & Glenn Altschuler |
| Published: 03/25/2013 |
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Ithaca, NY, where Cornell’s main campus is located, is less than an hour’s drive from four maximum-security state prisons for men. Proximity has led to a partnership among institutions of higher education, New York State and a philanthropic foundation that offers some of these men the chance to earn an associate’s college degree—and the benefits extend well beyond improving individual lives. More than half of all inmates in the United States serve maximum sentences of less than eight years, and many are released well before their sentences are completed. In New York State, forty percent of all inmates who are released will wind up back in prison within three years. An inmate’s ability to make it on the outside depends on whether he is returning to a stable family, whether he has mental health or substance abuse issues, and on his education and employment-related skills. Read More. |
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We all need a Ms Buffett to step up and offer grants that will help inmates become more productive citizens. Without Pell grants, inmates have had to pay for their own colege courses, should they even be offered in the unit where inmates might live. I hope more people and foundations will begin offering help. When inmates leave, as 95% of them do, they need a way to rejoin society; education is, of course, a major key to re-entry. prisongrievances.com