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Distance Learning for Incarcerated Populations
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Author(s): Christine Bagwell (University of California - San Diego, USA)
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 6
Source title:
Encyclopedia of Distance Learning
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Caroline Howard (HC Consulting, USA), Judith V. Boettcher (Designing for Learning, USA), Lorraine Justice (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong), Karen D. Schenk (K. D. Schenk and Associates Consulting, USA), Patricia L. Rogers (Bemidji State University, USA)and Gary A. Berg (California State University Channel Islands (Retired), USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-555-9.ch094
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Abstract
While many educators focus on bridging the digital divide for rural and disadvantaged students, a few focus on a much more isolated population— those in the U.S. prison system. “The criminal justice system has frequently been referred to as a ‘revolving door’ where offenders are released, only to be returned over and over again to incarceration” (Daniel, 2003, p. 3). Research shows that educating incarcerated populations clearly lowers recidivism rates at huge savings to state taxpayers. Just as the advent of the Web has revolutionized education’s reach, e-learning technologies have the power to extend into the most dangerous and neglected schoolrooms in our country, those of our prisons.
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