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Online Learning Becomes Court-Ordered Community Service

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Go to jail by AliasMarlowe · · Score: -1, Troll

    and get your degree on Uncle Sam...

    --
    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
  2. Racial Breakdowns? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Interesting the breakdown of inmate by education. I wonder what the racial breakdowns of this as well.

    Not to sound racist, but I do notice many inmates are negroes.

  3. Re:Teaching the curve not the median by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Education is expensive, but prison is far more expensive.

    Not if you try to customize every kids education. You'd have to turn that sentence around. Look, if you don't like the education system, home school your kid.
    Plus, privatizing prisons is extremely lucrative for business and creates tons of jobs.