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Originally Posted by swinearefine
They bachelor's degrees gave them potential for a career when they got on, rather than returning to selling drugs and what not. I don't know how prison works in the UK but in the US there is a high recidivism rate because when people get out they have little assistance with integrating back into society and with few job opportunities and the same group of often criminal friends they just settle back into their old lives.
They had free shelter, food, clothing, heating, and their degrees were entirely paid for, I think by a private donor. The Massachusetts government were discussing making it a tax-funded program in all the state's jails I do believe, but it was turned down because of fears that people who could not afford bachelor's degrees would commit crimes to go to jail.
I don't have any links; I remember it on the news and writing a research paper about it a few years back.
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That's not what I asked about though. I asked what did 'The wonders who thought this was how to treat criminals'... what did they do for the victims at the hands of those criminals. Were the victims given years of free food, clothing, shelter, heating, electricity and a free education to degree level?
What's the name of the prison that you are referring to? See the bit in bold: you've more or less destroyed your whole argument: that's the very point some of us are making: it 'pays' to commit crime, it 'pays' to go to jail.