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Report: Few Prisoners Enrolling In Available College Classes
Despite mounting evidence that correctional education — and postsecondary education in particular…
November 29, 2005
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Report: Few Prisoners Enroll in College Classes, Despite Research Indicating Its Effectiveness in Reducing Recidivism
Despite mounting evidence that correctional education — and postsecondary education in particular…
November 9, 2005
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Depriving the Incarcerated of Education
Your issue on education behind bars (see Black Issues, Feb. 24) was essential to public knowledge. Story:
April 20, 2005
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Untapped Potential
Untapped PotentialFrom whom life has taken a great deal, the women at Bedford Hills are getting much in return — in the form of education For Aileen Baumgartner, academic director of the college program at Bedford Hills, the click came when she learned one of her students was enjoying The Faerie Queene so much she […]
February 23, 2005
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Making the Most Of Their Time
Making the Most Of Their TimeLock ’em up and throw away the key is not the approach at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison for women in New York that for nearly 30 years has been a model for humane and progressive incarceration.“I think we have more programs than any other facility in the […]
February 23, 2005
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The Education vs. Incarceration Debate
The Education vs. Incarceration Debate The letter shown on the cover of the magazine is authentic. It was written by a female inmate pleading for an education. Educating the incarcerated is one of those issues about which the battle lines are drawn. Prison-education advocates say that some form of education reduces the likelihood of the […]
February 23, 2005
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Computer Repair: When the Bits Hit the Fan
Computer Repair: When the Bits Hit the FanIf you use a PC or Mac for business purposes, and it breaks, and you’re like many business people, you’re dead in the water. In a home setting, a broken personal computer is no fun either. Some people like fixing PCs, but if you’re among those who would […]
May 5, 2004
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Correctional Education: Books Give Prisoners’ Perspectives
Correctional Education: Books Give Prisoners’ PerspectivesCurrently, some 70 percent of the 2 million people in U.S. jails, prisons and detention centers are people of color; approximately 1 million are African American. With the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, the United States is one of the few developed countries with capital punishment and one […]
June 7, 2000
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Mastering the Art of Black Male Prisoner Education
Mastering the Art of Black Male Prisoner EducationIn early 1998, I received an invitation from the Rev. George “Bill” Webber of the New York Theological Seminary to speak at Sing Sing prison, the infamous correctional facility only 40 miles north of New York City. The lecture was part of a master’s degree program that Webber […]
September 15, 1999
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