"College For Convicts" is a book that Christopher Zoukis wrote, as an inmate himself, trying to get attention to our US government to allow inmates to be able to receive an accredited degree while in prison. Education in prisons has been shown to reduce recidivism. With 95% of prisoners being released back into society one day, which is estimated at 700,000 people, who will be turned out again on to the streets and in our communities with no more skills or knowledge to maintain a good job, we will most likely see these prisoners going back into the prison system again.
While in our prisons today, there are some prisons that will offer training classes and the sad thing about these classes are they aren't worth the paper the ink is written on. These certificates that they receive when the classes are completed can actually make it worse on a person trying to get a job once on the outside, because an employer can see the certificates and it really indicates all about the ex-con's jail time and why, costing the person to not receive the job.
There are pro's and con's to me about educating inmates.
