Prison Education

The purposed of this study is to create awareness of our male federal prison system and the lack of funds for current prisoners to obtain a college education. In 1965 the passage of the Higher Education Act helped by providing basic educational opportunity grants also known as Pell-grants, these grants were responsible in adding prisoners to obtain a higher education while serving time. During 1965 and 1992 the prison system created many college programs thought the country that helped men and women obtain associates degree, bachelors and even master’s degrees.

The problem that my research tries to bring awareness is the need to bring back college programs to state prison by providing a bridge that connects local universities to local state prison to teach non-credit college courses as a way to invite convicts to attend college after parole. The current problem that state prison faces in not being able to provide college courses to state prisoners, this current issue is associated with two important laws that were passed by congress in the early 1990’s. In 1993 the Violent Crime Control and

The three articles that have provided me with information related to higher education and convicts these articles are Convict Criminology: Voices from Prison, The inviting convicts to college program and Correctional Education from the Perspective of the Prisoner Student. These studies addresses many present issues such as the low number of college courses offered in prison, college preparatory programs, course context and creations of programs with universities association. In addition to addressing all educational related issues with state prison the studies conducted in my previous finding also found that by educating an inmate we are helping by reducing its percentage of