Source: The Atlantic
According to a recent study published in the Harvard Educational Review, Clint Smith of the Harvard Graduate School of Education argues how the right to an education should extend to all individuals, including incarcerated criminals.
The author of the report found that those who do not participate in correctional educational programs while incarcerated were more likely to return to prison.
In comparison, individuals who attended the correctional programs were 13 percent more likely to become employed upon their release.
While the findings align with previous information regarding the state of incarcerated individuals, Smith’s report emphasizes the importance of education, especially to those who are serving life sentences in prison.
“It isn’t merely something that attains its value through its presumed social utility—or, worse, something that society can take away from an individual who’s convicted of breaking the social contract,” he explained of the correctional educational program.
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