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Sunday, June 19, 2005
Prisoner Education: Should More Be Done? - Brooke Van Dam, Further Education
It is one of those topics that sometimes makes people squirm. What, if anything, should be done to educate prisoners? Are they simply there to be punished for their crime or should rehabilitation and training be involved to help integrate them back into society? The government, except for in the extreme cases, has chosen the latter and is introducing new plans to make sure prisoners have access to further education in the UK.... The access to the internet for the prisoner is another issue that the LSC [Learning and Skills Council] is willing to tackle. Gamble says, “The application of e-learning is an increasingly popular and powerful medium for learning, and the LSC supports extending this opportunity to offenders. Clearly, however, there are issues of security and accessibility to be considered, which are being worked through as part of the Offenders Learning and Skills Service Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy.”
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