Providing college to prison inmates / Jeanne Bayer Contardo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Contardo, Jeanne Bayer, 1978-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Education (Higher)--United States.

Prisoners.

Education, Higher--United States.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

College for inmates represents a particularly cost-effective strategy that, while not always politically popular, can prevent states from wasting substantial tax revenue on the cycle of catch and release called recidivism. Contardo examines North Carolina's pragmatic postsecondary correctional education partnership between the Department of Correction and the Community College System. Participants call this 20-year-old arrangement a "win-win" and believe that inmate participation in such programs decreases inmate idleness, improves behavior while incarcerated, and helps former prisoners find e

Contents:

CONTENTS; List of Tables; List of Figures; Chapter 1: The Challenge of Educating Prison Inmates in theUnited States; Chapter 2: The Prison Education Context; Chapter 3: Research Strategy; Chapter 4: Expanding College Access for Inmates; Chapter 5: North Carolina's Strategy to Educate Inmates; Chapter 6: Using Theory to Understand CorrectionalEducation; Chapter 7: Conclusions, Implications, andRecommendations; Appendices; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593325626

1593325622

OCLC:

773565181