California and Inmate Reintegration

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the proposed California Assembly Bill 1914 attempts to establish ways and methods to educate properly inmates and increase their chances of successfully fulfilling the requirements of life outside prison. The author points out that the present California prison system is based solely on punishment, while rehabilitation and education play an insignificant role. The paper stresses that the purpose of a judicial system should be the active correction and reintegration into society of the inmates and not the simple, medieval, retributive reaction against the individual; nonetheless, state-funded education for the inmates can result in not only a reduction of recidivism, but also in economic growth through the increased labor volume provided by former inmates.

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"The bill intends to create a committee to develop and implement a plan for providing educational services for inmates, including counseling and placement, to give the inmates the opportunity to obtain the equivalent of a high school-diploma or even to provide college-level academic programs, if the inmate shows the potential and is willing to pay for the program. The bill would also set forth goals and objectives for the committee, including ensuring that correctional education programs provide 9th grade literacy skills and marketable vocational skills, evaluating the effectiveness of the educational programs by developing a mechanism to test offenders for academic achievement and developing a five-year comprehensive plan for a unified correctional school system."

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