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Prisons seem an unlikely source of outstanding university students, but it is. What’s more, those who have done such study are much less likely to reoffend when they get out. 
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Regardless of one’s beliefs on what prisons are or should be, professors who desire to teach inside them need to know certain things, advises Damian Zurro.
Peter Mellow's insight:
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I taught in New Zealand's maximum security prison for a couple of years when AUT held the education contract there. I taught 'fitness foundations' which was popular due to the physicality culture in many prisons. I made a mistake one day wearing a sweatshirt of a specific colour and the guards made me take it off before I went in as it was aligned to one gang. Graduation had all these tough grown men crying with one saying it was the first study event he had passed in his whole life.
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Universities offer a crucial lifeline to people with convictions, but they could go further in encouraging and supporting their applications and studies
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These 37 graduates may not leave prison soon, but when they do they will have unusual momentum for success.
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Classes should be offered so that the formerly incarcerated don’t re-enter society behind everyone else.
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Imprisoned people are desperate to become students, and that desire and economics mandate that we heed their calls, argues Doran Larson.
Peter Mellow's insight:
I taught at a maximum security prison once (my University had a contract to provide education there). It was a challenge, but when we had our first graduation event, the students were very happy and I know that some of them, when they got out, managed to get jobs and are good citizens now. Well worth it from a society perspective.
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Giving prisoners access to financial aid for college tuition is the first step towards “de-carceration.”
Peter Mellow's insight:
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Making the Connection is an Australian Government funded project. Track Project Activities, World and Australian News and Trends relating to Higher Education in Prisons and Corrections Centres. by Stephen Seymour
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Academics could learn a lot from volunteering in a penal institution — about teaching, technology, and the value of a liberal-arts education.
Peter Mellow's insight:
When I was a senior lecturer at AUT University, I used to teach one morning a week at Paremoremo, New Zealand's maximum security prison with Mike Pitama from the Te Wero course. It was very satisfying when the first group of students graduated with their 'Fitness Foundations' certificate.
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