No. By failing to educate the men and women in our prisons today, we are assuring that many will be back in our prisons again tomorrow. It is only by changing their thinking and giving them the economic skills to make it in society that we can assure that they will become productive fathers, mothers and citizens. When an individual is released back into society with the same thought patterns and economic skills that he or she had years earlier when incarcerated, a return to crime is nearly assured. And that’s one of the reasons that today’s recidivism rate is so high.
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