Grundtvig – messages emerging
on prison education (II)
on prison education (II)
–Research results are beginning to prove
the economic attraction of improving prison education (lower re-offending
rates)
–Prisoners with the least promising
criminal diagnosis are likely to benefit most from prison education
–There is a vital need for prison officers
to be adequately trained in order to equip them properly for their complex
job
–Valuing learning is a particularly
important area in the context of prison education: many inmates have competences of
which they are
not made aware
–Prison education as an instrument for
social re-insertion can only be achieved through close collaboration between the
education service and
other bodies, especially in the post-release phase
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