I've checked "Opposing Viewpoints" database and found several related
articles and statistics on the point. One article stated:
"WHEN 120,000 inmates are released one year and 80,000 of them are back in
prison the following year -- as was the case in California in 1999 -- it
says something [word deleted] about the effectiveness of a state's
correctional system.
Considering that 50 percent of state inmates cannot read while the other 50
percent read on average at a seventh-grade level, it's easy to see a
possible tie between criminality and literacy. " --- *San Francisco
Chronicle* August 8, 2000
Reading and Righting a Wrong. (EDITORIAL)
Also, the following statistics were offered:
In 1997, 14.2% had an 8th grade education or less; 25.5% had some high
school; 28.5% had a GED; 20.5% had a high school diploma; 9% had some
college; 2.4% were college graduates. (Opposing Viewpoints--Prison
statistics) Taken from the Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, January
2003.
~Shonda
On 9/28/06, David Lininger <tss003@tnp.more.net> wrote:
>
> Debbie Dougharty wrote:
>
> > I have heard this story as well. I don't know if this is based on
> > fact or is one of those "urban myth" type things that gets told so
> > often it is accepted as fact. I have read that prison populations
> > tend to have a lot of people who were not successful in school for a
> > variety of reasons; you know, if you can't succeed at being good, you
> > will succeed at being bad. We all crave success of some sort.
> >
> > Hopefully, someone out there knows if this is based on valid data.
>
>
> I checked Snopes, and didn't find anything. It stand to reason, though,
> that people who don't do well in school would turn to something else.
> That "something else" isn't necessarily a criminal enterprise, but
> sometimes it is. I wonder whether there is a correlation between those
> who are lazy at school and those who later become criminals. Those who
> are just plain dumb don't become successful at much of anything.
>
> --
> David Lininger, kb0zke,
> MS/HS librarian
> Hickory County R-1 Schools
> Urbana, MO 65767
> 417-993-4226
> tss003 at tnp dot more dot net
>
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