RE: The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Felon Education and Recidivism
Just the other day we were discussing the rotten situation about the prisons over here. Guys that do shoplifting to feed their families are incarcerated with hardened criminals and they receive free crime lessons in jail.
In the past we have helped some prisoners to continue their studies by supplying them with free laptops, but an end was put to this.
We even met and sent a proposal to the prison authorities that entailed us setting up a free PC training class inside one of the big prisons, but we were rejected, stating that they had no money to pay the wardens that we wanted to oversee the training classes.
So now the idea is to get a farm and to build a skills training center on the farm with two double story flatlet buildings. We want the short term repeat offenders to be sent to this farm to undergo proper skills training for the period of their incarceration.
This will not only solve the serious overcrowding situation in the prisons, but it will also offer the offenders a better opportunity at reentry.
This project is still in its research and planning stages and we will see where it goes.
Blessings.
Yes, yes, and yes!
Where are you located?
I'm surprised the prison would say no to your offer. It really doesn't cost them any extra to have a warden in the room with the computers.
Most of the prisons here (in the US) have at least basic skills training classes. I'd love to get laptops in the prisons, but inmates aren't allowed to have Internet access where we are. However, another local prison just purchased a bunch of tablets for the inmates. Now they can make phone calls from their bunks! It's strange how the priorities fall sometimes.
Thank you for all your efforts. Do you have a website or social feeds I can connect with?
Thank you and we are located in South Africa.
Our website is; http://www.papillonfoundation.com
We also operate on a shoestring budget, but God provides.
Blessings!
I love your website! Once we get a few more months under our belts, I hope we can design ours to be as informative and positive as yours.
Thank you!
Unfortunately we have to feed all of the information through to the webmaster and we cannot work on it, as it is a donated website.
Fortunately we don't have the trouble of the upkeep and the links as it is all freely done for us.
I try to get most of our requirements donated and I will advise that you try to do the same.
Blessings!
Thanks for the advice! Ours is the same way, and it's still very much a work in progress. :-)