What happened to prison education programs? | SocialistWorker.org - The Diigo Meta page

• 02 Jun 09
  

  Doug Noon

  With the retreat of the movements of the 1960s, the government's approach to prisons and prisoners was pulled in a more conservative direction, like other social policies. The idea that it should be a concern of society to help prisoners better themselves disappeared; instead, prison became a place where people were thrown away to pay for their crimes.

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  • The same attitude continued with the introduction of life-without-parole sentences, which now exist in every state except Alaska.
  • As Angela Davis says, "We have to move from a society that is grounded in vengeance to a society that is grounded in justice."

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