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Education as Crime Prevention: Providing Education to Prisoners
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1998
by Dan Pens
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1998, page 4
I lost count of the number of people who have written me to ask if I know where they can find statistics on the impact of prison-based education programs on recidivism. After congress eliminated Pell grants for prisoners in 1994, resulting in deep cuts in prison education programs, this question …
Filed under:
Resources,
Statistics/Trends,
Prisoner Privileges,
Education.
Location:
United States of America.
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