Criminal,
Education Law
Feb. 16, 2023
Creating a prison to university pipeline
Not only does education dramatically reduce recidivism, but it is significantly cheaper than incarceration.
Keramet Reiter
Professor
University of California, Irvine
Reiter teachers in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society and at the universities School of Law.
Katie Tinto
Director
University of California, Irvine
Tinto is a clinical professor of law and the director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at the universities School of Law.
California is leading the nation in developing programs to support both public education inside carceral facilities and successful reintegration into our communities post-incarceration.
In 2014, California passed Senate Bill 1391 (Hancock) to facilitate and encourage community college course offerings in state correctional facilities. Now, almost one decade later, each of the state’s 34 prisons has face-to-face community college course off...
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