"Educating Condemned Prisoners (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies On File: n. pag. Issues & Controversies. Facts On File News Services, 25 July 2003. John Carroll School Library, Bel Air, MD. Web. 24 Sept.
· “…those who have been sentenced to death? Should they be given access to educational programs as well?”
· Education in prison sometimes keeps released inmates from crime
· Except for Alabama, Arizona, Texas, and Maryland all states offer some sort of education for condemned prisoners
· If condemned inmate may not leave their cell for education
v Though they may have educational materials
v Watch educational television programs
v Take a correspondence class
v Be taught through the bars
· Courses are basic literacy or high school level
· Very few allow condemned inmates to have college level courses
· Some believe inmates on the death row should not be educated because they will never be in the outside world again
· The prisoners have done awful things and some think that allowing them education is rewarding them
· But others say that the learning makes the prisoners better behaved
· “They’re living here for a long time…we want them to be able to make good decisions about how they’re going to conduct themselves.”
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