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Originally Posted by Billcat
A lot of the criminals are sadly lacking in education. If anything the average criminal is educationally disadvantaged. While it is not the only thing that leads to crime, one contributing factor is that folks with a poor education are unlikely to get decent-paying jobs. If the goal is to precent recidivism, education is a good idea. Getting these prisioners doing anything constructive is an important step towards getting them out of the prison system permanently when they are released.
I'm not convinced that your repeated comparisons of the economic diferrences between ordinary folks and crminals holds water, willow. The circumstances are not strictly comparable. If you or I want further education, we can get it pretty cheaply and, at the same time, hold down a job that will furnish the funds to pay for it. My employer will also pay for some continued education, which is not an uncommon benefit here in the USA. Most inmates have jobs that pay very little, or no job at all. Please read the info on the link I posted previously.
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Further education in this country is becoming a thing that only the well off will soon be able to afford.
As for the differences between 'ordinary' people and prisoners, there aren't any, except prisoners have broken the laws of the land, and are being punished for it.
At present 6/12 criminals reoffend within the year in the UK, even with a second attempt at getting an education in prison, which was their choice if they wasted the twelve years of State education they would have got.
Poverty is not an excuse to embark on a life of crime. It is an insult to the millions of poor people who don't resort to it, and try to live an honest life.