“Education provides justice-impacted people with a second chance by expanding their opportunity to find a job and provide for themselves and their families,” said Dave Abel, president and CEO of Aventiv, the parent company of Securus Technologies.
Studies have shown that prison education can reduce crime and lower recidivism rates in the U.S.
Nolan-Jones became pregnant at 17 to a man who was married and 14 years older than her, she said. She dropped out during her senior year of high school but eventually received her diploma the next summer. In 1998 she gave birth to her second child, so her dream of going to college was put on hold again.She finally entered school in 1999 as a nursing student at the age of 21. Three years and a third child later, she was 18 months away from graduating with her nursing degree.
“I attend Ashland University through their correctional education program. I'm working on a major in interdisciplinary studies and minors in sociology and business administration. In May 2022, I graduated with my associate's degree in general studies and am tentatively scheduled to graduate with my bachelor's degree in May of 2024,” she said.
According to Securus, nearly 8,000 students across the country were enrolled this past fall in a wide range of courses including English composition, business, communications and math. So far, the company says, 1,000 incarcerated students have earned their degrees through Securus Lantern. There are hundreds of schools, from community colleges to Ivy League, that provide education to correctional facilities. published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology found that individuals who participate in educational programs are 28% less likely to be re-incarcerated than their peers who do not.
“Basically, my life just kind of got rough from there,” Crowe told Yahoo News. “He left and took my daughter. ... At the time, I was young and didn’t really know what to do. So I turned to drugs, and basically I struggled with addiction my whole life.“I ended up being a drug dealer,” she said. “I got pulled over, got into a high-speed chase, I hit a cop car, got caught with a lot of drugs on me.
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