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- Title
RESISTING CIVIL DEATH: ORGANIZING FOR ACCESS TO EDUCATION IN OUR PRISON NATION.
- Authors
MEINERS, ERICA R.
- Abstract
The article discusses the diminishing educational program for inmates and the formerly incarcerated as part of civil death. It also explores the lost of voting rights, struggles in securing living-wage employment, and denial of access to public housing and welfare. Despite research documents that show education reduces recidivism rates, states build more prisons than schools and budgets for corrections increase while funding for higher education contracts. The 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (VCCLEA) provide billions in funding for prisons but banned inmates from applying for a Pell Grant for tuition aid. Access to higher education is prohibitive due to ineligibility for scholarships. Suggestions on how to stop this kind of social injustice are also provided.
- Subjects
EDUCATIONAL programs; CIVIL death; EDUCATION of prisoners; LEGAL status of prisoners; INSTITUTIONALIZED persons -- Services for; HUMAN rights; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATIONAL law &; legislation
- Publication
DePaul Journal for Social Justice, 2009, Vol 3, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
2151-3090
- Publication type
Article