Prison Education

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U.S. Prisons Don’t Fund Education, and Everybody Pays a Price

After a murder charge at 13, Xavier McElrath-Bey earned a college degree behind bars and now saves lives. All convicts should have that chance.

By Matthew Fleische
http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/03/01/americas-inmates-education-denied-everybody-pays-price?upw

Working as a prison Librarian dealing directly with inmates, and later as the Coordinator for all Maryland state prison libraries, I found the library was a transforming place for inmates, majority of whom had never visited a library before incarceration.