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Originally Posted by Livia
Surely what this teaches us is this: work hard and pay your way, take out a student loan it will take you years to pay off and study. Or... become a criminal, rob or beat someone, or break into their home or steal their car or maybe even rape or murder someone... and not only get it all paid for on the taxpayer,but also study in an environment where you're not going to have to work as well to be able to eat and buy books.
Spend the money that would be put into making prisoners' lives comfortable into schools and education, because if there's one thing the majority of prisoners have in common it's a lack of education and opportunity. Waiting until they've committed a crime to give them an education sounds ridiculous to me.
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That was why the government decided against passing a law to make it a state-wide program.
I completely agree with spending more money on childhood education to prevent people from committing crimes in the first place, but I think it is also important to educate prisoners. It's not only for their benefit, but for the benefit of society as a whole. I think they should be required to have to pay for their degree, whether through working while in prison to paying while on the outside, like a loan.