Aaron Schneider, Carol Shapiro, Janie Paul / NT Times Opinion
Ms. Treen’s excellent essay raises a number of important issues, to which I’d like to add one more: prison education. If more incarcerated individuals were able to receive more education while behind bars, recidivism rates would almost certainly drop, and, eventually, the average age of the prison population would, too.
If more incarcerated men and women acquired college credits while imprisoned, they would become better candidates for earlier parole. Ms. Treen notes that parole boards typically “consider the transformation” applicants have undergone and, specifically, whether they have been able to “investigate and transform their thinking and behavior and to work toward repairing harm.” …