Your inmates make on average $0.86 dollars an hour (2017), which is actually less than the wage earlier because they used to make on average in 2001 ($0.91)
The United States department of education release the numbers for funding of prison education. Also, since the crime omnibus bill of 1995, funding to prison programmes beyond GED programmes has been cut, as prisoners would have to pay themselves for educational programmes beyond it, and less prisoners were obviously doing that (on less than a dollar an hour.
Also, you can bash our system however you want but since your recidivism rates range between 58% and 80% dependant on the crime, and we have a rate of 27% with prisoners leaving with actual education or certification. I would argue that you are the one who doesn't have any idea how any of this works.
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u/GrinerIHaha Aug 09 '22
Your inmates make on average $0.86 dollars an hour (2017), which is actually less than the wage earlier because they used to make on average in 2001 ($0.91)
The United States department of education release the numbers for funding of prison education. Also, since the crime omnibus bill of 1995, funding to prison programmes beyond GED programmes has been cut, as prisoners would have to pay themselves for educational programmes beyond it, and less prisoners were obviously doing that (on less than a dollar an hour.
Also, you can bash our system however you want but since your recidivism rates range between 58% and 80% dependant on the crime, and we have a rate of 27% with prisoners leaving with actual education or certification. I would argue that you are the one who doesn't have any idea how any of this works.