Prisons are historically made to be a place of punishment for those who have committed a crime yet it does not provide the proper rehabilitation for prisoners that have a limited time to be released back into society. Prison was considered a humane solution for a criminal yet prison was not a place for punishment or deterrence, but a place of rehabilitation in which was the right idea in the wrong place (Murphy, 16-7). In the end, sending people to prison is not the answer if there is nothing provided for the prisoners therefore it is the prison’s responsibility to provide that way to rehabilitate prisoners as a solution that gives them a reason and purpose to be brought back into society to fit in. An ideal rehabilitation purpose is made out
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A majority of inmates did not achieve or obtain the education needed in their previous times such as a college education and a diploma before being put into prison, the PUP can provide it for the inmates and there is more to gain out of it. Approximately fifty-two percent of the inmates read below a seventh grade level to which the program can provide literacy programs to the sixty percent of the inmates therefore they can achieve a ninth grade level before being let out (Martin, 51). This particular college program is a foundation with a lot of writing, but also provides a safe environment filled with people that go through the same type of learning process and with so many people involved with the program, there are people that are able to provide the help needed (“Prison University Project”). With the support in the program of the staff and teachers in which they “…see the importance of the guys inside getting an education and how important it is to come out of prison with an education” therefore they are determined to give the inmates a smooth transition from prison to the outside world to make it easier to fit into society (“Prison University Project”). Society is associated with education as widely accepted for a person, an educated person is more acknowledged and is more open to opportunities. There is more to …show more content…
The inmates could reflect and be in an environment to communicate with others that would improve their behavior in a positive way. In prison without the given use of a method of rehabilitation, it almost little to none that there is anything taught or learned in result of getting out of prison therefore it’s difficult to really change the mindset of someone that’s just been passing time. Although with education, it could expand the inmate’s mind and gives them an opportunity to see the world differently especially if the prisoner was not given any sort of education in the past to give them a better understanding of their views in life. A prisoner named Tommy in the “Prison University Project” explains that “over the years in prison, …[he] started to read and [he] started to reflect upon on this outside world that I didn’t know a whole lot about.” This reflects how the inmates that give learning a chance, it could trigger the mind to which it would result with a different perspective. The students are not only there to be taught like any regular student, “…but also to learn from their life experience, their trials and tribulations we know nothing about” (Martin, 51). Being enabled to an education and being taught lets the prisoners focus on their learning before further connecting it to their
A majority of inmates did not achieve or obtain the education needed in their previous times such as a college education and a diploma before being put into prison, the PUP can provide it for the inmates and there is more to gain out of it. Approximately fifty-two percent of the inmates read below a seventh grade level to which the program can provide literacy programs to the sixty percent of the inmates therefore they can achieve a ninth grade level before being let out (Martin, 51). This particular college program is a foundation with a lot of writing, but also provides a safe environment filled with people that go through the same type of learning process and with so many people involved with the program, there are people that are able to provide the help needed (“Prison University Project”). With the support in the program of the staff and teachers in which they “…see the importance of the guys inside getting an education and how important it is to come out of prison with an education” therefore they are determined to give the inmates a smooth transition from prison to the outside world to make it easier to fit into society (“Prison University Project”). Society is associated with education as widely accepted for a person, an educated person is more acknowledged and is more open to opportunities. There is more to …show more content…
The inmates could reflect and be in an environment to communicate with others that would improve their behavior in a positive way. In prison without the given use of a method of rehabilitation, it almost little to none that there is anything taught or learned in result of getting out of prison therefore it’s difficult to really change the mindset of someone that’s just been passing time. Although with education, it could expand the inmate’s mind and gives them an opportunity to see the world differently especially if the prisoner was not given any sort of education in the past to give them a better understanding of their views in life. A prisoner named Tommy in the “Prison University Project” explains that “over the years in prison, …[he] started to read and [he] started to reflect upon on this outside world that I didn’t know a whole lot about.” This reflects how the inmates that give learning a chance, it could trigger the mind to which it would result with a different perspective. The students are not only there to be taught like any regular student, “…but also to learn from their life experience, their trials and tribulations we know nothing about” (Martin, 51). Being enabled to an education and being taught lets the prisoners focus on their learning before further connecting it to their