How Education and Experience Can Help Prisoners Achieve Parole • Response to Barbara’s Treen’s Essay, “Living Slow Deaths Behind Bars”
Schneider, Shapiro, Paul / NY Times Letters: 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....