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College for Convicts: New Study Proposes $60BN Annual Budget Cut – By Providing Higher Education in Nation’s Prisons

The study, conducted by legal commentator Christopher Zoukis, concludes that offering post-secondary and academic education to prisoners can cut $60 billion from the national budget every year – without scrapping existing programs. Zoukis has compiled his research and findings into College for Convicts: The Case for Higher Education in American Prisons, a game-changing new book

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Education Through the Airwaves: Britain's National Prison Radio

Given the choice between studying math and improving literary skills or producing a radio show, it’s not too hard to guess which option most prison inmates would go for. Yet in Britain, National Prison Radio has found that the two make excellent partners. Radio Feltham pioneers prison radio The history of prison radio in Britain

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Prison Gadfly: Interview with Christopher Zoukis

The term “gadfly” was used by Plato in The Apology to describe Socrates’s relationship to the Athenian political scene, which he compared to a slow and dimwitted horse.  Essentially, Socrates was a goad, a poignant reminder of right and wrong.  So a gadfly is someone who upsets the existing state of affairs by asking uncomfortable

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Prison Education News Founder Under Fire: Federal Bureau of Prisons Attacks Christopher Zoukis

By Randy Radic  We at Prison Education News are concerned regarding several recent events at FCI Petersburg, the medium-security federal prison in Petersburg, Virginia where PrisonEducation.com  founder Christopher Zoukis is incarcerated. Due to the importance of this matter, we’ve decided to go public and share what has transpired in the past two months. We do

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Support PrisonEducation.com on Huffington Post

As I’ve previously reported here at Prison Education News, I am now a contributing writer at the Huffington Post.  For the most part, I focus my work there on America’s broken criminal justice system.  This, I feel, helps to expose wrongs that need to be addressed, and by doing so in a very public forum,

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Support PrisonLawBlog.com on Huffington Post

I come to you again with good news concerning my prison reform advocacy.  As previously reported here at the Prison Law Blog, I am now an authorized contributing writer at the Huffington Post.  It is there that I spend most of my time bringing issues within the Federal Bureau of Prisons to the light of

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HuffPo: 5 Items to Send Your Incarcerated Loved One

My next Huffington Post article was just published on their Crime Blog. The article is “5 Best Items To Send Your Loved One In Prison.”  Click on the following link to be taken to the article. If you like it, I’d greatly appreciate you tweeting, sharing, and liking it from its page on the Huffington

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What to Send Your Loved One in Prison

If you’re interested in the best things to send your incarcerated loved ones, check out my latest post on The Huffington Post: “5 Best Items To Send Your Loved One In Prison.”  Click on the following link to be taken to the article: If you find the article to be of interest, I’d appreciate you

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