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| Company uses tech to unlock education for prisoners |
| By tennessean.com- Jamie McGee |
| Published: 07/22/2015 |
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Prison lockdowns, solitary confinement, antiquated texts and computer labs. They are the common deterrents in a prison education program that Nashville entrepreneur Turner Nashe Jr. wants to make irrelevant when it comes to inmates pursuing degrees. Nashe’s approach includes a mobile tablet that offers online courses to inmates. The tablet and his CorrectionEd learning system have been gaining traction with state correctional departments across the United States and will be used in more than 35 facilities by the fall. CorrectionEd offers General Educational Development, vocational and college courses, with the goal of helping inmates advance in education while incarcerated. With higher degrees, the likelihood for recidivism drops, which means improved outcomes for inmates and less cost to taxpayers. “My goal is to increase engagement, reduce the length of time it takes for an inmate to gain or finish a degree and to improve time on task and learning scores,” said Nashe, whose company is called Innertainment Delivery Systems. Ideally, “when these guys get out, they can go straight to work rather than playing catch-up.” Read More. |
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