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How can prisoners be rehabilitated without proper access to education?
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
CSC policy makes clear that prison staff are expected to facilitate access to postsecondary schooling. But that policy conflicts with another: the total ban on inmate access to the internet… As the federal Office of the Correctional Investigator put it in a 2016 report: “It’s hard to understand how an environment deprived of computers and Internet, and thereby deprived of information, can be rehabilitative.”
Tags: corrections, crime prevention, Indigenous, jurisdiction, participation, rights
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