Online Learning Becomes Court-Ordered Community Service

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 11, 2012 @01:46AM from the fighting-crime-with-knowledge dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo Finance reports that convicted criminal offenders can serve their court-ordered community service hours online by taking educational courses through Community Service Help. According to the article, there is a high correlation between criminal activity and lack of education. Who knew? 'About 40 percent of all U.S. prison inmates never finished high school, and nearly 44 percent of jail inmates did not complete high school. More current data shows that hasn't changed. In Washington, D.C., for instance, 44 percent of Department of Corrections inmates are not high school graduates. Less than 2 percent had 16 years or more of schooling.'"

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Great idea! by Vinegar+Joe · 2012-03-11 01:55 · Score: 2, Funny

More criminals online. Exactly what we needed.

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Once again by Dunbal · 2012-03-11 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny

Correlation != cause. Educating them will just mean smarter criminals. Not everyone can work in banking.

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Repeated by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-11 02:20 · Score: 4, Funny

33% of statistics are simply repeated. Of cited statistics 67% are not repeated. More recently 33% of statistics were repeated.