The prison education in the UK have poor quality standards. This is something to worry about because finding a job after serving a sentence is a crucial factor to not reoffend, and education is necessary to develop skills for jobs. The reoffending levels are 50% for adults and 72% for juveniles, but being in a employment can reduce the risk of reoffending between 30% and 50%. So with these poor educational programs, most of the prisoners are leaving prison without employability skills.
Over half prisoners have no educational qualifications, and almost all have low literacy levels. A lot of them were expelled of school.
About no one prison got good qualification on their educational program, and the good examples of prisons that work with employees and educational providers are rare.
The director of further education and skills at the education watchdog Ofsted, Coffey, criticizes the focus just on the passage of time in the convictions, and not caring about the achievement of educational qualifications.
The prison minister and probably the whole society is concerned about the high levels of reoffending that stay the same for so long, and because of the taxes money spent in prisoners, which stands at £34,000 per year each inmate. He says that they doing significant reforms to the offenders were rehabilitated and managed in the community.
No one take care about prisioners, not only about the education, even the meals that they gave to them or ther violence that prisioners have to live day after day in jail.
ReplyDeleteWhen the people says "less prisons, more schools", I get the angst about what this two institutions means in our societys, two faces of the same coin.
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