{"id":3055,"date":"2022-11-12T23:06:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T23:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3055"},"modified":"2022-11-16T21:01:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T21:01:38","slug":"when-you-learn-you-dont-return-how-education-in-prison-reduces-recidivism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/?p=3055","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When You Learn, You Don\u2019t Return\u2019: How Education in Prison Reduces Recidivism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">When I was sentenced to forty-five years in prison, I never thought I\u2019d earn a college degree or be successful in any way. I couldn\u2019t have been more wrong.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"tools\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox\" data-url=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/when-you-learn-you-dont-return-education-prison-recidivism-blackwell-220411\/\" data-title=\"\u2018When You Learn, You Don\u2019t Return\u2019: How Education in Prison Reduces Recidivism\" data-description=\"When I was sentenced to forty-five years in prison, I never thought I\u2019d earn a college degree or be successful in any way. I couldn\u2019t have been more wrong.\">\n<div id=\"atstbx\" class=\"at-share-tbx-element addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"at-21f0037f-1de7-424f-8b42-d6e1724ee2b4\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"at-share-btn-elements\"><span style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">It was in the ninth grade when I, Chris, decided to call it quits. I felt dumb in class never seemed to be able to follow what the teacher was saying. To cover up how behind I was, I\u2019d crack jokes, usually at the teacher\u2019s expense. This would usually wind me up in the principal\u2019s office on my way to another suspension. One day, I got tired of the theatrics and left. It wasn\u2019t long before the juvenile detention center was my second home; and soon after that, the penitentiary.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"carousel content no_js\" data-transition=\"content\" data-loop=\"false\">\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">When I was sentenced to forty-five years in prison for taking another person\u2019s life, I never thought I\u2019d earn a college degree or be successful in any way. I thought all I would ever be is a prisoner whom no one cared about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #f2f1ec;\">I couldn\u2019t have been more wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #ff914d;\" href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/latest\/when-you-learn-you-dont-return-education-prison-recidivism-blackwell-220411\/?fbclid=IwAR1_4TU29dksJbGIYqnYGIdnxNF-yLrGIjneiG8Ugo1RRX3SEUbSJFTzMAE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3055"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3059,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3055\/revisions\/3059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speirenua.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}