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No, I don't think they should be given it for free, I take that back. I think that they should work for it through labour, yes, that they should earn the right to a "community college style" education, and pay the price in their labour as opposed to money. But honestly. How do you expect people to improve if you give them absolutely no reason to improve?
Why, koff~
Have you ever heard of the 'no such thing as a free lunch' dichotomy? This is what it imposes. What is my pocket going to do with prison labor? Absolutely nothing. The people would still be paying for this program, whether or not they 'earn' it through labor or whatever else. They're offered jobs that make money doing laundry, ID plates, wood-shop, cooking and whatever else. For us to pay for their professors, teachers, books, etc. is wrong. It will never be free, and it will always cost the community money.
Perhaps the problem in the first place is that inmates and the prison system sees more cash than our entire school system. Talking about education, why not build it up from the very beginning and stop worrying about those already caught? If you're talking about educating people and making them wish to remake themselves better, then you're looking in the wrong place. I would suggest that educating them in the first place would be far more important than after the fact. And yes, some people slip through the cracks, boo-hoo. That's life. The system is far from perfect, but it's what we've got, and overhauling it would see even more people fall through the cracks.
If people followed the law in the first place, I suppose that we wouldn't have to bust druggies. That and drug addicts hurt other people by stealing, lying, and damaging others. It isn't like we just throw these people in there for fun. Plus, talking about rehabilitation, can you think of a better way for them to sober up than by depriving them of their addiction entirely? I cannot. Oh, and the Norway prison system would never work over here. I hate it when people use that as an example, koffi~